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Aldrich said the five hikers may be at fault for failing to bring snowshoes into the deep snow, although the case will be "judged on its own merit," he said...
...Depression, not Pearl Harbor, not the death of Roosevelt. Not Dallas, or Selma, or Martin Luther King in Memphis, or the Tet offensive or Bobby Kennedy's death. Not Watergate. Nothing to merit a full, sonorous documentary on the History Channel...
...They can't be very helpful in academic jobs," she says, noting the merit system's reliability. "In theory nobody can call a department and say, 'Have I got a student for you, and here's my $10,000 donation to the department...
Lisa Ngai, a senior at Ferndale High School near Bellingham, Wash., aims to be the first from her immigrant family to go to college. In the past three years she has taken the SAT I three times, the PSAT (which determines National Merit Scholars) twice, SAT II exams in math, writing and U.S. history and, for good measure, the College Board's Advanced Placement calculus exam. This year she is enrolled in three more AP classes. By the time she graduates, she will have paid nearly $500 for tests sponsored by the College Board and designed by the Educational Testing...
...books and computers. It also puts pressure on principals to account for their schools' performance, gives local officials more control, requires that all children be able to read by the third grade and prescribes regular reading and math testing for students. For teachers whose students excel, there is a merit pay clause...