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Money from the $25 million Annenberg Fund has allowed the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) to lower its fees for peer tutoring and a popular reading course and to pay its student tutors more, changes administrators say may increase the number of students participating in the Bureau's programs...
...black students comprised 7.2 percent of the Harvard student body--up 38.5 percent from 1980 when, among the Ivy League schools, only Cornell University had a lower percentage...
Suddenly the project took on a new urgency. The researchers concluded that the surge from a Category 4 storm would put John F. Kennedy International Airport under 20 ft. of water. Seawater would pour through the Holland and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels and into the city's subways throughout lower Manhattan. The flooding would be especially disastrous if people seeking to escape torrential rains and falling debris were to take shelter in subway stations. The report didn't estimate casualties, but observed that storms "that would present low to moderate hazards in other regions of the country could result in heavy...
...hopes Magic Johnson is enjoying a nice chilled glass of schadenfreude as he reads the reviews of HOWARD STERN's new television show. Stern, who was merciless to the basketballer while Johnson had a talk show, got slapped with the most dire content warning (TV-MA), lower national Nielsen ratings than a nonlive version of rival Saturday Night Live and a DD cup's worth of critical bile for his debut network effort. The show, which featured Stern abusing a female body builder and several guests who were hoping to win free cosmetic surgery, was called "the smelly underpants...
...request, Manley screened for stocks that are down and may be driven even lower by tax selling. He found that there are 160 stocks traded on the three major exchanges--New York, American and NASDAQ--that are at least 25% below their average price over the previous 12 months. Note: that's not from their high point, but from their average price, a proxy for the price most people paid for the stock over that period. On the list are plenty of big, widely held companies, including oil-services giant Halliburton, tractor company Deere, Northwest Airlines and food-and-tobacco...