Word: pools
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Obviously the way to deal with the problem of the giant pool of contaminated water in Butte, Mont. [AMERICAN SCENE, March 30], is for Congress to declare this "giant cup of poison" one of the Great Lakes. Notwithstanding geographic inability and congressional insanity, it's still a pretty big lake. And since the pool is the "biggest tourist draw in southwest Montana," there's some loot involved too. STANLEY T. DOBRY Warren, Mich...
...been hanging out in Loker this semester but the pool table action is getting tired. Where should I go instead...
...same problem--and the same hope--in Texas, where in 1996 a federal court banned race-based affirmative action in admissions in the state university system. In response, last year an alliance of state legislators came up with the "10% Plan," which was first applied to this year's pool of applicants. Any Texas high school student who graduates in the top 10% of his or her class is guaranteed a slot at any of the state's public universities, including the highly selective University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M. At many of the state's public...
...Kaplan has set up a similar voucher program in California. The New York City-based Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund offers students at six historically black universities Princeton Review courses for $375--half the regular price. "In the short term," Sharlot says, "nothing could be more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course at Florida A&M, a black university; six sat for the LSAT in the fall, and five scored in the 150s--on level with the national average...
...Since we have been in business for almost 75 years, we have a network of over 10,000 past fellows in 79 different fields who act as a pool of potential advisors and play a large role in the selection process...