Word: minuses
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...woke up in a bed at a Gaza hospital. The wall above his head in the intensive care unit is plastered with the faces of dead Palestinian fighters that supporters believe have gone on to paradise. Yusef was nearly one of them, but he survived - minus a leg that was amputated below his knee. Barely conscious, he cracked a joke with his comrades from the Salaheddin Brigades jostling around his bed. "It looks like my leg has reached paradise before I did," Yusef said with a weak laugh...
...imperative that they're designed properly. For example, she notes that most programs reward health providers for being the top performers in a particular field - but not for relative improvement. "Right now we're offering bonuses to A+ performers, when most doctors are delivering at a B-minus level," Rosenthal says. "Without an incentive to [improve], most doctors won't bother...
...school math.” As attendees followed along in their own decks, he explained the counting process. Cards numbered two through six are “plus one”; seven through nine are “neutral”; and ten through ace are “minus one.” Adding the value of the cards being played gives the “count” of the decks, and the higher the count, the better the chance of winning in a game of blackjack. Using this basic strategy, and disguising himself with pseudonyms such...
High school minus the prom and plus a less awkward health class, single-sex education has long been a contentious hotspot of the academic world. Many proponents argue that adolescents benefit socially and academically from being able to develop without feeling pressure or judgment from the opposite sex; but others feel that single-sex education creates an unrealistic bubble that inhibits the development of social skills and reinforces gender stereotypes. Harvard, with many of its students hailing from the various single-sex high schools across the country, is the perfect place to test this debate. These students’ experiences...
...group has maintained its original membership since 1993 (U-God, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck, GZA/Genius, and Ghostface) minus the notable absence of Ol’ Dirty Bastard who died...