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...saucer incident until years later, after all the publicity started." After chasing down other sources suggested by 509th pilots, Jeffrey was convinced. "In essence," he says, "the 1947 Roswell case has turned out to be a red herring, diverting time and resources away from research into the real UFO phenomenon...
Much like inflation in the economy, grade inflation is a phenomenon that Faculty and students at the College seem to accept as an inevitable fact of life...
Faculty members say that the continuing inflation of grades has led to a closely related phenomenon--what they term "grade compression"--since academic marks at the College can only...
...Harvard Angle. "Praise and critical attention have been showered on his work from a number of unlikely sources, including The American Museum of the Moving Image. "Also, several serious papers (full of words like 'reify' and references to Lacan) have been published that connect the Pee Wee Herman phenomenon to recent trends in art. Finally, all this attention has spurred the re-release of a collection of 'Pee Wee's Playhouse' episodes on videotape...
...next school year on review work. Economically disadvantaged students, whose learning is often not reinforced in their homes or in their communities, forget much more each summer. Research shows the economically disadvantaged suffer about two months of learning loss, vs. one month for better-off students. This phenomenon recurs summer after summer. Shorter summers could reduce this gap while raising the achievement of all students, including those at the top. This would be no mean feat...