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...Most of the candidates said improving achievement in sixth through eighth grade was a key goal. And everyone agreed with the committee’s decision to temporarily alter the district’s method of assigning students to schools, which balances student bodies based on socioeconomic factors. The change was prompted by an influx of more middle class students this year...
...original measurements were performed by a nutritionist, who estimated a menu item’s calories based on its recipes, Ackil said. The new tabulations come from lab tests that determine calorie counts through repeated tests of each offering—a more costly, and more accurate, measurement method. “Once we were able to save up enough money, because it’s very expensive to test things in the lab, we sent all our food to the lab,” Ackil added. In the future, b.good will send all its prospective food selections...
...more personal experience with this issue than most politicians; his son is a Marine who has served in Iraq. However, Webb's proposal is not a humanitarian act: It is part of a political strategy. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said that the plan is not a "backdoor" method for reducing the American troop presence in Iraq, but that's exactly what it is. The only way to give soldiers and Marines more time in the U.S. is to reduce the total number of troops in Iraq at any given time. American troops have not being sent to Iraq...
Cambridge is taking a unique approach to eventually making the 7.1 square-mile city wireless. Rather than using infrastructure technology, as has been common, the city has elected to use a more efficient method using mesh technology instead...
...could potentially transform the government's understanding of America's drug problem. In small samples taken from untreated community sewage plants in six major cities, lead researcher Jennifer Field has been identifying and analyzing chemicals the body produces after breaking down substances like marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and heroin. This method, first used by Italian scientists to gauge regional cocaine use, allows researchers to analyze data within hours, tracking drug use, not over a year's time using aggregated national data, but over a few days' time within a small, defined region. The window of detection is short here...