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...treatments work, widespread availability is usually years away. But a study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine offers such intriguing insights into the future of treatment--not just for Type 1 diabetes but also for a number of autoimmune disorders--that it's hard to resist. Just keep in mind that these are preliminary results...
...surefire way to commit political suicide a few months ago was to oppose more school testing. The name of the landmark education bill President Bush signed in January--the No Child Left Behind Act--reflected the prevailing mood: to resist standardized tests was to desert kids. The legislation, which mandates annual testing in Grades 3 through 8, passed overwhelmingly. But as state legislatures sew up their budgets and students dive into year-end exams, a change is afoot--the sacred cow of school testing is getting tested itself...
...while Sachs says he has loved both Harvard and the Boston area, he could not resist the combined attraction of the U.N. offer and the directorship of Columbia’s Earth Institute...
...because poor marks could cause them to be at greater risk of being drafted to fight in Vietnam. Additionally, the increased reliance on graduate students as teaching fellows has caused grades to rise; teaching fellows have less experience evaluating student work than professors, and they have little incentive to resist raising grades when challenged by students. In fact, teaching fellows could be even more tempted to give higher grades because of the correlation between high grades and positive student evaluations, which can influence their professional ambitions, their advancement prospects and even their salary...
...Other Stories" by Richard Russo, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for "Empire Falls." Kirkus and PW swoon, giving the book starred reviews. Says Kirkus, "Readers who loved such a roomy, generously plotted, and detailed novel as the Pulitzer-winning 'Empire Falls' won't be able to resist this first collection of seven stories by the Maine novelist...a wonderful distillation of Russo's gifts for crystal-clear narration, subtle character portrayal, and irrepressible humor... There may be more important writers around, but none is more likable, or more dependably entertaining and rewarding, than Russo." PW agrees. "Russo...