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...Will the quality of its student body suffer as a result? Perhaps. The annual rankings are a popular shortcut among parents and students overwhelmed by the similarly slick brochures and similarly staggering price tags put out by competing colleges. But Sarah Lawrence is hoping it will continue to attract applicants who have done their homework and figured out that the rankings come from an arbitrary formula that doesn't shed much light on how well a school educates its students...
...term for what happened at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah Thursday night. As rescuers tried to dig down to where six coal miners have been trapped since Aug. 6, the walls of their tunnel exploded inward violently, hurling projectiles of rock and coal at the workers. The awful result: two rescue workers and a federal mine inspector are dead, and several more are in the hospital...
...life above all - for the future of the space shuttle program, which impacts, among other things, the maintenance of the Hubble Telescope and the International Space Station, which can't survive without a space truck capable of delivering heavy construction loads. The investigation's thoroughness is also a direct result of an overhaul of NASA policies following the 2003 Columbia disaster. Asked whether the agency may have gone too far this time in information overload, Shannon, who never broke a sweat making his announcement in a press briefing, said no: "I love it. It's outstanding...
...most Mexican Presidents of the 20th century - then the news this week would be genuinely alarming and the Bush Administration's attempts to pair Hugo with his buddy Fidel Castro might be more credible. But respected groups like the Carter Center in Atlanta have deemed his victories fair, the result of a remarkably incompetent Venezuelan opposition rather than rigged voting. And rather than ramrod the constitutional amendments by fiat, he'll put them to a national referendum. Just as there was a good chance that Chavez could have been ousted by the recall referendum in 2004, there is at least...
...Already, every member of the National Assembly is a Chavez ally - which is largely thanks, however, to the opposition's boneheaded boycott of the last parliamentary elections - as is just about every Supreme Court justice. As a result, keeping Chavez in power until 2021 (his stated goal, the 200th anniversary of Venezuelan independence) if not longer could eventually make him, by default, a kind of "democratator," a democratically elected dictator. At the very least, says Jones, "it's bound to set off some alarms about the constructs of democratic government...