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...crawl, and fashion came to what seemed like a dead stop. Deep-seated culture was forced to pretend that it was changing at the pace of the plans, and nature dropped right out of the picture. When the system inevitably broke, there was little robustness left in the culture, scant adaptivity left in commerce, and the Russian environment was a poisoned wreck...
Scholarly studies on distance learning thus far are scant. But several high-profile distance ventures have flopped, and research has shown that chat-room courses tend to be more costly and have higher attrition rates than lecture-hall classes. And there's the prickly legal issue of ownership: who retains the rights to a Wordsworth lecture once it is let loose in cyberspace...
...economics department, which earned the number one ranking in a 1997 U.S. News and World Report survey, is among the larger and more prominent of the graduate study programs. They accepted 25 of 500 applicants--a scant 5 percent...
Last year, for only the second time in its 30-year history, Airbus surpassed Boeing in confirmed orders, 476 (worth $30.5 billion) to 391 ($28.3 billion). In the first two months of this year, Airbus had 29 firm orders. But those figures scant Airbus' achievement, since five years ago Boeing boasted four times as many orders as its brash European rival. "I doubt if anyone else in the world could have pulled off what John and his team have done," says an admiring Airbus official...
Quiet Hawk's Paugussetts have long been recognized as a tribe by the state of Connecticut, but that status required scant proof of lineage and carries few benefits. Only 10 of the modern Paugussetts live on the group's two reservations: a quarter-acre lot in the town of Trumbull and 106 acres in Colchester. There a metal gate blocks the gravel drive, and a NO TRESPASSING sign bars the curious from visiting the two mobile homes inside. A mailbox reads GOLDEN HILL...