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...evidence suggests that drug use among teachers is not exactly a pressing problem. In 2007, the Department of Health and Human Services published a major study showing that people who work in education rank 18th out of 19 listed professions in the use of illicit drugs. (Those who work in food service, arts, retail and "information" services - like, um, journalists - were among the major offenders.) Only 4% of educators reported use of illegal drugs in the previous month, compared with 14% of construction workers, who work in a much more dangerous environment. The 4% figure for teachers is still...
...from a Q Guide entry to a course website. Incorporating the Q Guide entirely into the shopping tool could make course ratings more visible and, in turn, make shopping less tedious. The lack of certain other functionalities, such as the ability to search and rank by ratings, is also a common frustration—evidenced by the abundance of student-designed search engines and spreadsheets developed to make finding courses that fit a certain specification easier. If a student in CS 50 is capable of creating a better search engine for the Q guide, surely the Harvard administration could...
...need more than one tough enforcement hombre, too; she'll need to resuscitate the SEC's rank and file enforcement officers, the numbers of which have steadily eroded while the complexity of the job has increased...
...first recruited a group of 23 male and female volunteers - none of whom were obese and all of whom were in good general health - and instructed them to fast for 17 hours. During that period, he and his team interviewed them about their favorite foods and asked them to rank each on a 1-to-10 scale. The researchers then selected one food for each subject, the only requirement being that it scored 7 or above in desirability. When the 17 hours were up, the volunteers were injected with a nuclear tracer, placed in a brain-imaging PET scanner...
...courtship is going, Obama is getting a solid salute back from the rank and file...