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...Aside from his education reforms - which have put more corrective pressure on failing schools, introduced merit bonus pay for teachers and sparked a steady rise in Florida students' reading and math scores - Jeb gets strong marks for his plan to move most of the state's Medicaid patients to private managed care, which has been controversial but is regarded as a potential national model. He has also earned praise for diversifying Florida's economy away from low-wage tourism and agriculture...
Warthogwash! Michael Hutchins, director of conservation and science for the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, says the activists are "unrealistic and biologically naive; they are taking human moral precepts and trying to apply them to animals." That view, he adds, may have some merit when it is focused on domestic and farm creatures and even on the plight of laboratory animals, but it has no place in wildlife conservation. "We're trying to save animals from extinction," he says of the AAZPA, which includes 158 of the nation's best-known, most prestigious and carefully regulated zoos...
Despite the criticism that some groups have leveled at educational institutions that knowingly enroll illegal immigrants, Fitzsimmons defends the College’s policy of admitting undocumented students. He says that the College is more concerned with merit over circumstances when it admits applicants...
...race- and gender-conscious policy by a 45 to 39 vote, to the vehement opposition of some faculty members. Several months of intense debate and negotiations ensued between the Review and the faculty, at the end of which the Review began for the first time considering factors other than merit in choosing its members.AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONPrior to 1981, law students could join the Review either by being among the top five students in their first-year sections—each class used to be divided into four sections—or through a combination of their grades and their scores...
...again a strong force for Harvard in its annual battle versus Yale but was not enough for the Crimson to overcome its New Haven host and other Ivy rival Princeton, despite record-shattering performances by Scherf and Barrett. Scherf’s 17:03 finish proved only enough to merit second place, while Barrett’s first-place achievement and four other top-ten finishes were not enough to edge the competition. Scherf paced the Harvard women to a fourth-place finish with another second-place effort at the New England Championships. Barrett’s presence was again...