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They said the Drive would have to be at least 100 feet wide at the Boylston St. underpass in order to accommodate the necessary turn-off ramps and median divider. Depending on the exact position of the underpass, a ramp will grase--or run directly through--the Weld Boat House...
...said that some smaller institutions had created what he called "sugar" professorships at salaries much higher than they usually paid. This would boost their average salaries without greatly affecting their median salaries. He also said that some institutions include in their reports to the AAUP higher summer compensation received by scientists and research fellows, partly through government aid. Including these factors would change Harvard's relative rating, without seriously affecting its actual competitive situation...
...nail polish (the median number of shades owned is 3.3); 87% of them use lipstick, and 59% of them use eye makeup...
...that they not only are more esthetic, but also tend to keep the driver interested and therefore alert. Surprisingly, in the average terrain, such highways are very little, if any, longer, and no more expensive to build than the standard design of straight stretches connected by short curves. Uniform median width should also be avoided; the median strip between the ribbons of roadway should be expanded and contracted to overcome the monotony of high-speed travel. "The designer of a divided freeway possesses, in the very interplay of the two undulating ribbons of pavement, a basic tool of spatial expression...
...where it could fill the freshman class entirely with students whose SAT scores were 700 or better, but it chooses deliberately not to do so. In fact, an examination of the test scores for the Class of '66 reveals little numerical difference between those admitted and those rejected. The median math and verbal scores for the applicant group as a whole were 657 and 641 respectively; for the admitted group the figures were...