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...provided and a personal photographer to record the day, plus a limo driver on hand all weekend. It costs a sweet $25,000 clams. Or you can swap the parade, and its trappings, for a massage and a traditional New Orleans king cake served at turndown, for a comparatively modest $699 per night. Available Feb 22-24.921 Canal St, New Orleans...
...into account the fact that test scores can be affected by such factors as schooling, intensive test preparation, and socioeconomic background. We have long been aware that the test-taking experience of students may be affected by their financial and educational resources. In particular, we recognize that students from modest economic backgrounds have a limited number of fee waivers for tests and may not be able to take them as many times as affluent students. We also know that research clearly indicates that score increases are generally modest after two test sittings. We will continue to review each applicant carefully...
...then, astonishingly, it did. In June 2006 a modest researcher from Japan made a startling announcement at the International Society for Stem Cell Research conference in Toronto. Shinya Yamanaka quietly described a study in which he took skin cells from a mouse and stirred them in with varying genetic cocktails made from a recipe list of 30 genes known to be important in development. When he hit on the right four genes and inserted them into the cells aboard retroviruses, he wiped the cells clean, reprogramming them and returning them to an embryo-like state without ever creating the embryo...
Carol Porter, 63 and no word mincer, sits in her modest kitchen in Euclid, Minn., and recalls the day her 118-year-old church was burned to the ground. "I was baptized, confirmed and married there," she reports. Her family had moved two lots down from Euclid's First Presbyterian, so she was able to watch through the kitchen window a few years ago as fellow parishioners knocked down the church, buried its fixtures and then put a match to what remained, sending a thousand Sundays of memories up in smoke...
However, he also noted that in difficult economic times, there is a tendency for prospective students from modest backgrounds to attend college close to home...