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...Skinner's stream of consciousness - in a club, on his own, taking his first ecstasy pill of the night: "Right, I'm going to plan/ I wish the bouncers would go away/ Borrow water off this man/ Here goes nothing, O.K./ And I'm thinking, 'That's proper rank'/ Tastes like hairspray". The nervy excitement of a first date in Could Well Be In is portrayed with a tenderness that softens the lack of couth: "I saw this thing on ITV the other week/ It said if she plays with her hair then she's probably keen/ She's playing...
...year later, the group increased the minimum class rank and standardized test scores—psst…otherwise known as the Academic Index—necessary to gain entrance into an Ivy League institution. This was a good decision, because, as we all know, grades and test scores can tell us everything about an individual...
...There isn’t much sharing of info with membership,” Carens said. “That’s not a strong effective strategy to win a good contract. You have to try to reach out to all the rank-and-file members, and the way to do that is to make them feel like they can influence the way negotiations happen...
...nine spots are occupied by schools in California, and six University of California schools rank in the Top 20. Ivy rival Brown finished with a No. 19 ranking...
Lomborg now runs the Environmental Assessment Institute for the Danish government. His next big project will assemble a group of top economists to rank the world's priorities from a short list of 10: trade barriers, malnutrition, climate change, conflicts, financial instability, sanitation, human migration, communicable diseases, education and corruption. --By Matt Ridley, author of Nature via Nurture