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...example, in 1998 the U.S. Customs Services was criticized for its racial profiling policies, which targeted mostly black women as potential drug couriers at the nation’s airports. As a result of the criticism, the criteria used to select those to be searched was changed. By focusing more on certain behaviors rather than ethnic background, fewer searches resulted and a significantly higher percentage of those conducted were successful...
...most common song I hear sung today is God Bless America, and I keep saying, '...as well as the other nations.' I'm not opposed to patriotism, but I'm opposed to having it be blind to the reality of the total world. I've been trying to select hymns that have a more global perspective...
...find out. Just breathe into the BodyGem, a hand-held gizmo that instantly measures your base metabolic rate. Armed with that information, you'll know how many calories you can eat per day and how much exercise you'll need to burn them off. The BodyGem is available at select health clubs--check www.healthetech.com to find out which ones--just in time for turkey season...
...grade for those who don’t receive A’s. A different teacher may distribute B’s according to a Bell curve. Not only does this penalize students who happen to take courses with tougher-grading professors, it also creates incentives for students to select courses with easier-grading instructors. And this in turn puts pressure on tougher-grading professors to inflate their grades, or else face dwindling enrollment in their courses. Grades are supposed to be an evaluation of how a student performs in class, but without standardization, grades start to affect what classes...
Admissions decisions will be e-mailed to those who select the service as soon as they are available...