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...time the debate ended, a great many sensible things had been said about the educational disadvantages of preregistration. But preregistration was a bad idea also because it wouldn’t work as a predictor of course enrollments. Our registrar so advised the deans last summer, based on her prior experience as registrar at two schools with preregistration, Boston University and the University of Arizona. Preregistration is a useful method for allocating scarce enrollment slots where many courses have caps. But it does not produce good results if enrollments are open, unless students are not allowed to change courses...
...fatty substance, called triglycerides. In addition, women with low levels of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, are more likely than men to develop heart disease later on. National guidelines suggest a minimum HDL level of 40 mg/dL for men and women. "But [low] HDL is a more powerful predictor of risk in women," says Dr. Lori Mosca of New York--Presbyterian Hospital. "So in my practice I recommend keeping an HDL of 50 mg/dL for women...
Elevated lipids--cholesterol and triglycerides--are important risk factors. Although doctors have traditionally focused on levels of LDL (bad cholesterol), HDL (good cholesterol) may be a better predictor of heart-disease risk in women. Women should maintain HDL at levels as high as possible...
...managed to infuriate everyone sooner or later. He was a Harvard professor who saw himself as the last vestige of Tammany Hall, a machine politician without a machine but with an ancient mandate to care for working stiffs, widows and orphans. He believed ethnicity was a more potent predictor of political behavior than social class. He outraged liberals by insisting that too many black children were being raised without fathers; he outraged conservatives by opposing Clinton's welfare reform because he didn't want to see those children hurt. He was an avid patriot and anticommunist, especially when he served...
...upsets. As with underdog Butler, a 47-46 winner this weekend (and did the NCAA tournament get even half the flak the Academy did for putting on its show?), low numbers won in Oscar pools this year. AMPAS members reversed longstanding traditions. The Directors Guild (a 91% accurate predictor of Oscar gold) had picked Rob Marshall as their man; Polanski won. The Screen Actors Guild chose Daniel Day-Lewis and Renee Zellweger as statuette sure shots. As for "Gangs of New York," you might not have picked it for Best Film vote, but you also didn't guess that...