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...Wechsler's ongoing national studies of student alcohol use are unmatched in their scope. For each study, Wechsler surveys more than 15,000 students at about 130 colleges, providing some of the most authoritative statistics on the magnitude of college drinking...
...plan to Congress, and the plan officially hits the bargaining table. Up for negotiation may well be the estate-tax repeal that passed both houses last year, countered possibly by some targeted cuts that Democrats want. Bush is promising "the tax cut I ran on," and thus size and scope are probably less negotiable than fine-print content. And with the public's sense of fiscal responsibility on a hair trigger, that goes for Republicans...
...selection committees (especially the ones in Texas, California and Florida). The stakes are huge: the $3.5 billion in annual textbook sales is greater than the sales of all hardcover books to adults. Textbooks are superficial in part because they must conform to state standards, which are often encyclopedic in scope. But "the weakest link in the chain," according to education researcher Harriet Tyson, is "textbook evaluation." Most committee members have little time to examine texts thoroughly, frequently making decisions based on splashy graphics and frills like CD-ROMs...
...contrast to American publishers, the Japanese have their markets targeted down a laser-sighted scope. There are actually competing comic titles for the young-mother set! American publishers apparently cherish their chauvinism more than their profits...
...editorial was the main reason why the students extended the scope of their protests from commemorations of the late CCP secretary Hu Yaobang to also include a call for more fair evaluations of their movement. The "Tiananmen Papers" also show that the April 26 editorial was the result of much political maneuvering on the part of the conservatives within the CCP, led by Li Peng and Chen Xitong, then mayor of Beijing...