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...Seattle, Washington, ten high schools allowed students to opt for any school of choice, unless the school was over-enrolled. If that was the case, after preference was given to siblings of enrolled students, the spots were allotted to maintain a racial balance that differed by no more than 15 percent from the county’s overall demographics, according to one of the panelists, Liliana M. Garces, who wrote the amicus brief submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union for the two cases. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...past, FAS has consistently avoided commitment. In 2001, student activism led to the creation of an energy task force that did little and went defunct. In 2004, the administration sidestepped a proposal to add a $10 opt-out fee to the term bill to purchase wind energy. Given this history, it becomes clear that there must be decisive student support if anything is to change...
...need a ladder to reach. The convenience of shopping in just one place is sure to lure a lot of customers and small shop owners worry that the supermarkets will force them out of business. I can see they have reason to worry - I'll certainly opt for the supermarkets - but I hope that not everything about shopping in India changes. My first experience with home delivery was quick, efficient, and wonderfully exotic. When my fridge arrived that afternoon it came strapped to the wooden tray of a three-wheeled rickshaw, towering above the rider and wobbling a bit from...
CHICKENS They may not be the brightest in the barnyard, but they do have self-control. British scientists found last year that if given a bit of food, chickens will opt not to eat it if they know when a greater reward is coming...
...most-watched video on YouTube last week but also raised the viral-video site's political profile. For all the hype over "The YouTube Election" (as the New York Times dubbed it), Web video has not proved to be a persuasion tool. It is an opt-in medium: you have to seek out videos or click on an e-mail link, whereas TV ads crawl through your cable line and hunt you down. In the partisan world of political websites, there are few undecideds; we are not exactly a society of people who surf the Web to find arguments that...