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Walsh showed confidence in his sophomore, letting Crockett work the full nine for his fifth career complete game and his second of the season. Crockett allowed one earned run on eight hits, striking out eight and walking just one. Crockett's strikeout-to-walk ratio on the year...
...magazine ranked GSE slightly higher than Stanford's School of Education, though the latter tends to attract applicants with higher entrance examination scores and has a better faculty-to-student ratio...
According to an explanatory article on the magazine's educational ranking web site, www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/, the rankings are based on test scores, faculty-to-student ratio, "insider ratings," budget and research grants, starting salaries for graduates, among other criteria...
...charges, says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. "All prescription drugs have risks and benefits, and Rezulin was no different," she says. "Patients with liver problems had to be watched very carefully while taking this drug, but it helped a lot of people with diabetes." And that cost-benefit ratio played into the FDA's timing; the agency did not pull Rezulin until other, less toxic drugs became available...
...number of European countries are going to be in desperate straits," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "In Germany, for example, there are currently three working people for every retired person, but that ratio may be as low as one to one by mid-century, which would seriously impair the economy's ability to support the elderly. And a decline in European economies could be accelerated by a tremendous brain drain." The destination? The U.S.A., whose relatively relaxed immigration policies have made it a magnet for the smart and productive elements from all over the world, who in turn have...