Word: leveller
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Murphy has said repeatedly that the talent level in the Ivy League is close. This year proves him right, since four teams were tied for the league lead at 3-1 entering this past weekend. Little things in individual Ivy games determine the champion, and despite a truly great effort, it looks like this isn't Harvard's year...
Much of the war against Saddam has faded to the level of indistinct chatter, where it is hard to sort signal from noise. The problem is bad on the military front, but it is even worse among the Iraqi insurgents, who have to be coached, caressed and cajoled by the State Department. Last weekend 300 delegates from various Iraqi opposition groups gathered in New York City, where U.S. officials hoped they would finally lay aside their feuds and present a unified front. That didn't happen. The major group representing Iraq's southern Shi'ites, the Iran-backed Supreme Council...
...start of school to give their children an extra year of pre-school. This trend--known as "redshirting," after the practice of holding back freshman college athletes--is widening the developmental and age gaps among the students. A "typical" kindergarten class contains kids ages 4 to 6 whose level of development varies widely. Some barely know their letters, while others are fairly fluent readers. Sue Bredekamp, editor of a widely used guide for teachers of young children, says, "What teachers tell us is that expectations for kindergartners have become more standardized, while the pool of kids in kindergarten has become...
That will have enormous practical consequences. Your genetic profile, recorded on a chip, will let doctors--or, more likely, their computerized diagnostic tools--determine your exact level of risk for a particular disease and which proteins and enzymes your body lacks. There will be no more wasteful trial and error, with costly pills winding up in the trash because they produced unwelcome reactions or didn't work for you. Instead you'll get customized prescriptions, created to "fit" on the very first try, like a Savile Row suit...
...stroke, even in the cortex [an area important to higher intellectual functions], he or she may sustain it and develop quite normally. The exact same injury would put an adult in a wheelchair. I wondered if the source of the brain's apparent plasticity was at the level of the single cell...