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Rankings were based on four general criteria:student selectivity, faculty resources, reputationand job placement for graduates. The magazine'sstaff converted these numbers into percentiles andthen combined them to arrive at an overallranking
Currently, the College does very little in this regard. Aside from randomly mixing students in the Yard--which does have significant impact--it is difficult for first-years to meet each other in an intimate setting. Freshman Week is a blur of placement exams and Crimson Key ice cream socials--which, despite good intentions, are not good places to get to know someone...
...fairly late arrivals. Human technology-the making of tools from stone-had already been in existence for nearly 2 million years. There are traces of symbolism and ritual in burial sites of Neanderthals, an earlier species, dating back to 100,000 B.P. (before the present). Not only did the placement of the bodies seem meaningful, but so did the surrounding pebbles and bones with fragmentary patterns scratched on them. These, says Clottes, "do indicate that the Neanderthals had some creative capacity...
...survivor of nine New York group homes: "There were rats in the stove. I know some girls who tried to commit suicide, and the staff wouldn't even check on them." A traumatized child-care community launched the debate that continues today. Some championed earlier and more extended placement of damaged children in residential treatment, maintaining that institutional permanency was far preferable to a nightmare sequence of foster-care failure after foster-care failure. Says Sarah Breding, Hollygrove's director of social work: "These kids learned through their birth families that adults are going to hurt them. And a foster...
...retarded mother and her alcoholic grandfather because, wrote Forer, "it was the policy . . . to keep the family together." Also Tyrone, 8, whose father, a boxing trainer, had beaten him so badly for wetting his bed that he bore 70 permanent scars: "No agency would even attempt to find placement for Tyrone; the family should be kept together...