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DIED. HOWARD W. HUNTER, 87, the 14th president, prophet, seer and revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; in Salt Lake City, Utah. A former corporate lawyer, Clayton was the first Mormon president born in this century; his nine-month term was the shortest in church history...
Commuter airlines operating small aircraft should not be allowed to continue under regulations less stringent than those governing larger planes, the National Transportation Safety Board said today. The board's recommendations come after a nine-month study and a day after the International Airline Passenger Association urged its members to avoid commuter aircraft with fewer than 31 seats -- planes the IAPA said have a "significantly higher" accident rate than larger craft. The smaller commuter planes do not have to meet some standards that apply to larger aircraft; the NTSB recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration tighten commuter pilots' training standards...
...Harvard Business School faculty is considering a proposal to replace the traditional nine-month academic calendar with a year-round system divided into three separate trimesters...
There is no greater miracle in all of biology than the nine-month journey that begins with a fertilized egg and culminates in the birth of a tiny human being. From the moment the egg and sperm unite, an ancient and astonishingly intricate ballet unfolds. The still microscopic sphere divides into two, then four, then eight parts. Soon after, individual cells begin an extraordinary trek across this globe of living matter. Some dive deep into the core, where < they give rise to the intestinal tract. Others bunch along the surface, forming a hollow tube -- one end of which buds into...
...major benefit of such schedules is to improve students' retention rate. Teachers in traditional nine-month schools often must spend three to six weeks in the fall reviewing material learned the previous year. "The year-round program is particularly good for at-risk students because they don't have that long summer to forget what they struggled so hard to learn," says Brenda Teeter, a Mooresville science teacher...