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...York City, some advocates have said in lawsuits that parents weren't notified early enough that their kids were flunking. And in Chicago, which led the nation on the issue, a parents' group has filed civil rights complaints alleging that the promotion crackdown holds back a disproportionate number of black and Latino kids...
Maybe it's the name. If you call yourself the World Trade Organization, you can't complain much if people dial your 800 number and gripe about world trade. If a bunch of heads of government plan a triumphalist self-celebration in Seattle, you can't blame party poopers for showing up to horn in on the publicity. But really, the WTO is O.K. Do the math. Or take it on faith...
...speak from personal experience. As a college student in the 1980s, I spent a summer working as an intern in a hospital pharmacy. Whenever we received a prescription order, I would go to the stock shelves, find the right bottle and count out the number of pills that were called for. A registered pharmacist verified my work and swept the pills into a container with the patient's name, which was then delivered to the appropriate floor. One day I put a weaker dose of a heart medication on the counting tray than I should have. Neither the pharmacist...
...Numbers feature [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 22], we incorrectly stated the revised height of Mount Everest. The correct figure is 29,035 ft. And since we got that figure wrong, the following number of how many Bill Bradleys it would take to top the new Everest was incorrect too. The right figure is 4,525. Also, we erred in our statement that 100 shares owned by the average hourly UPS worker would be worth $68,000 after trading on the first day the stock was available on the market. The correct value...
...Number of Web pages featuring tennis minx Anna Kournikova...