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...WUSA never existed, Zotter would have gone as far as Japan to play professional soccer. But thanks to rapid growth of women's soccer in the United States, the WUSA is here. And if the early returns are any indication, the league is here to stay...
...that the overgrown Harvard undergraduate body might with advantage be divided into groups analogous to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge is worthy of serious consideration by the graduates who must have been well aware that the growth of the College during the last 25 years has been too rapid to permit satisfactory internal adjustments to keep pace...
...surveys, researchers from the University of North Carolina determined that children are eating a lot more snacks than they did three decades ago. How much more? Kids today consume 25% of their calories between meals, compared with 18% in the 1970s. The biggest changes occurred after 1989, mirroring the rapid increase in childhood obesity...
Second-career teachers in Massachusetts got classroom training during summer school, but there they taught just nine or 10 children in leisurely two-hour blocks. As rookie teachers, they had to teach 100 or more students each week in 50-min. periods. What's more, in exchange for their rapid certification and bonuses, the so-called boot-camp teachers agreed to work in schools with more low-performing students and discipline problems, where experience in classroom management is as important as knowing your subject. Similarly, in New York City a court ruling requires the city to assign a newly certified...
...hysteria of McCarthyism, Harvard commanded Raymond Ginger to either divulge his political allegiances or resign. Unwilling to comply with the coercion, he immediately submitted his letter of resignation. Harvard gave the Ginger family the monetary equivalent of the two remaining months of his contract, contingent on their rapid departure from Massachusetts. The quality of Raymond Ginger’s teaching and scholarship was never challenged, and the University committed a grave sin against academic freedom by forcing him out on the basis of his political views...