Word: leveller
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...page on the World Wide Web, the Harvard Medical School (HMS) characterizes its students as those who "bring to the HMS learning community a high level of excellence expressed in a rich diversity of accomplishments, talents, interests and backgrounds...
Blanks suggests that the pre-med student "be an explorer and explore as much of the energy level, the interest level and the enjoyment of hard work [as possible...
Last weekend's National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (NISRA) Team Tournament featured a level of intrigue not seen in many years, at least from Harvard's point of view...
...greater risk of unemployment than otherwise comparable whites. Far more important, however, are four considerations. As sociologists Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro established in their award winning book, Black Wealth/White Wealth, the black middle class possess a fraction of the assets held by comparable whites. For example, the median level of wealth in white households they reported as $43,800, compared to only $3,700 in black households. In terms of net financial assets (subtracting debts) the respective figures are $6,999 to zero! Taking a college degree as an indicator of middle class status, Oliver and Shapiro show...
Meanwhile, the Canadian Olympic team came up with medical evidence to back Rebagliati's claims. Carol Anne Letheren, chief of the Canadian Olympic Association, said that a single joint would bring an athlete's level to 400 ng/mL but that just being in a room with eight to 10 smokers an hour a day for six days could result in levels over 100. Ronald Alkana, professor of molecular pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Southern California's School of Pharmacy, said that marijuana's primary active ingredient, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), can be stored in the body's fat cells...