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...Stanford the median grade is said to be anA-. At Harvard it's a B+. So grades are not a verydiscriminating indicator of excellence in academicperformance," he said...
...Mount Vernon, which meets the Bronx on its northern side, the median household income, was $34,850 according to the 1990 U.S. Census. The census also noted that the area is 55.3 percent black and 39.8 percent white...
Cynthia Edwards says Mount Vernon public schools fail to prepare students to compete with those from neighboring communities like Scarsdale, with a median income of $120,825 and a population that is 83.9 percent white, 13.7 percent Asian, and 2.2 percent black, according to the census data...
Stocks may be faltering, but you still have a roof over your head, and that's worth a lot. The median resale price of homes rose 6% in the past year, up to $330,000 in San Francisco and $121,000 in Charleston, S.C. A new appraisal may enable you to stop paying mortgage insurance or secure a home-equity loan to shrink credit-card debt...
...Teen Research Unlimited found that 84% read magazines in 1997, so it's no wonder that the business of informing their lives, chronicling their troubles and defining their desires has become fiercely competitive. American Girl, Teen Beat and Tiger Beat have the younger age bracket sewn up. The median age of a Tiger Beat reader is 13, but girls as young as eight are snatching up the magazine. "Our readership is getting younger," says Louise Barile, editor of Tiger Beat. "It just goes back to girls' growing up faster. When they begin to get interested in boys, they graduate...