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...every time the Harvard admissions rate loses a point or two—we’re only human, after all. But as far as the rest of the world is concerned, we think that the whole charade of Harvard admissions is a wicked crap-shoot, that denying 93 percent of (presumably) well-qualified applicants the chance at a Harvard education is sinister, and that we need all the transfer students...
...said. “I think that’s a disservice to young people.”Five years later, CRLS has been taken off probation and the district has made significant progress in some areas. On the 2007 MCAS exam, 91 percent of students passed the English Language Arts (ELA) exam, compared with 79 percent in 2003; 90 percent passed the Mathematics exam, compared with 69 percent in 2003. But critics of Fowler-Finn have assailed him for being too “test-oriented” in his pedagogical emphasis and “misleading?...
Lee’s work in human genetics identifies copy number variation, a phenomenon that occurs when DNA segments are missing or duplicated. His findings proved that contrary to the prevailing notion that human genomes differ by less than 0.1 percent, there is actually significant variation, with hundreds of DNA sequences that are different...
...estimated that copy number variation accounts for more than 18 percent of the human genome...
Twenty-six percent of children between the ages of two and five are overweight or at risk to be overweight, a condition that can cause obesity, asthma or, type 2 diabetes later in life...