Word: medians
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...near tragedy. Twenty-five children in a Phillips Brooks House van tumble over a median on a Boston highway. There are no serious injuries, but the potential for an extremely tragic event is evident...
...sweeping women out of the home and into the workplace and creating a new demand for child care. First came the feminist movement of the '60s, which encouraged housewives to seek fulfillment in a career. Then economic recessions and inflation struck in the 1970s. Between 1973 and 1983, the median income for young families fell by more than 16%. Suddenly the middle-class dream of a house, a car and three square meals for the kids carried a dual-income price tag. "What was once a problem only of poor families has now become a part of daily life...
...where to find the laborers to build the new offices, the clerks to staff the stores, the pump jockeys to keep the cars running? Not from the local working class; in many communities there is none. Manual and low-paid clerical workers cannot afford the housing prices (Orange County median price for a new home: $125,000); indeed, many of the children who grow up in those houses must move elsewhere when they start their own families. And residents fearing still greater congestion fight bitterly and usually successfully against construction of low-cost, high-density apartments...
Fortunately I had borrowed a friend's Harley and was able to inch my way out of the tangle onto the immaculate median strip and soon was laying down tracks at a cool 90 mph. Like many things in Russia, the weather here is designed for one purpose only: to ward off potential invaders. But with the wind in my hair the heat was quite pleasant, and I felt a quiet sense of pride at the American's ability to improvise lanes of traffic...
...section of the QRR. Most freshmen prepare for both in a 30-minute cram the night before the test. They stuff the few necessary facts into their minds, spill them onto their papers and into the computers and, after the test, promptly dispose of the excess information. The phrases "median" and "standard deviation" once again are absolutely meaningless. Along with tours of Widener and parties at Weld, they are nothing more than bad memories of freshman week...