Word: marker
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Start in a bit from the entrance. There is a stone marking the plot of a Colonel Buchwald. It is large but not enormous, and Buchwald probably served his country well. The site would blend unnoticed if his neighbor to the left, lying under a small government-issue marker, wasn't Norman Cota, the general who on D-day rallied the scattered American invasion force on Omaha Beach and pushed it past the German defenses; Robert Mitchum played him in The Longest Day. A hundred yards away, under a similarly modest headstone, rests Alonzo H. Cushing, who commanded the federal...
...poverty that came with it. By the 1980s, even the black middle class had begun leaving the city. Declining enrollment and an accelerating middle-class flight distilled the city's school population to the point where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed the Maryland Functional Test in mathematics, which measures only the most basic skills; in Baltimore County...
...think of civilization as a long process by which such crude genetic determinism (the bigger guy wins) is replaced with finer and fairer values. But genes are barely less important today. There is, of course, the sensitive issue of intelligence. Many people think of the SAT as a genetic marker every bit as clinical as that contained in a syringe of blood. The folks who believe this are mistaken. But even the politically correct position--that "intelligence" is actually a bundle of different mental capabilities that people have in varying amounts, and that these capabilities can be strongly affected...
...GIFT OF LIFE Women who give birth in their 40s have a greater chance of living to be 100 than those who don't. The ability of late mothers to reproduce may indicate a slower aging process in such women and serve as a marker of longevity...
...University, compared two groups of women born in 1896. Their findings were stunning: Women who lived to 100 were four times more likely have had children while in their forties than were those who died at 73. "The ability to have children in the fifth decade may be a marker for slow aging and subsequent ability to achieve extreme longevity," the study concluded...