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...Before Hampel was hustled off to a Montreal jail last week, agents with the Canada Border Services Agency seized his bogus Ontario provincial birth certificate, the passport that had been obtained with the phony birth certificate, $7,800 in five different currencies, encrypted prepaid cellphone cards and index cards containing information on Canadian history and civics. Hampel claimed to be a former lifeguard and travel consultant living in Montreal since 1999. Journalists found a website he had set up where he described his extensive travels abroad and published photos of the countries he visited, primarily in Eastern Europe...
...Average body mass index (BMI) of a citizen of Malta, the fattest nation in Europe, according to a European Commission survey 25.4 BMI of the average E.U. citizen. A rating above 25 is considered overweight...
...members last night, one committee member warned that overemphasizing test data could turn the school system into a “test prep factory.” The roundtable, held to discuss possible changes to curriculum to improve student achievement, focused on the district’s Composite Performance Index. The index is calculated from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests and indicates how close the district is to proficiency in all studies on a 100-point scale. Results were released for the English language arts, mathematics, and science exams. From 2005 to 2006, the district boasted gains...
...That amount is the largest prize the world has seen yet, surpassing the $1.3 million of this year’s 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, according to the BBC. Kennedy School of Government Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Robert I. Rotberg and a team of researchers are creating an index to evaluate former heads of state from 48 sub-Saharan African countries. That index will quantify a candidate’s efforts on providing security, rule of law, economic opportunity, political freedom, educational services, health services, infrastructure development, and empowerment of civil society, Rotberg said. “It will...
...Beijing's air in time for the Olympics in August 2008. During that summit, which featured 42 heads of state, the authorities ordered half a million official cars off the roads and said another 400,000 drivers had "volunteered" to refrain from using their vehicles. The Air Pollution Index responded grudgingly, slowly falling until finally, on the last day of the meeting, it had dipped into a range considered normal anywhere else in the world. By the next day, though traffic was back to its usual chaotic state and the index had shot back into "unhealthy" territory. And Draconian measures...