Word: ranking
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...approximately 30 teaching fellows who rank below a 2.8 on the CUE scale, the majority are American born, he says, and foreign born graduate students are not on that list disproportionately to their numbers in the ranks of teaching fellows...
Backcountry skiers can substantially reduce their risk by heeding avalanche- center warnings, which rank the danger as low, medium, high and extreme. Forecasters routinely dig pits into targeted slopes to probe the condition of the snow below. Sometimes they even check the stability of the slope by carving ski-size slices through a test area, then standing or jumping on it. In general, south-facing slopes are less prone to avalanches because warmth from the sun promotes the bonding of the snowpack. Avalanches are also rare on slopes with inclines of less than 30 degrees. But there are exceptions...
...BOTTOM LINE: An unsung but first-rank regional stage scores with vibrant absurdism about a bonkers family...
...competition doesn't get any easier closer to home. Besides Harvard, five other Ivy League teams rank in the national top 15: Princeton at fourth, Dartmouth at eighth, Yale at thirteenth. Brown at fourteenth, and Cornell at fifteenth...
...claims "a vast gay subculture has emerged within the military," complete with gay Marines in the White House honor guard. An advance excerpt: "At least one gay man has served in the astronaut program . . . The Navy and the Marine Corps had at least one gay person at four-star rank since 1981, and at least one gay man has served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that time...