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...will seek to focus less on vocabulary and more on reading comprehension and analytical skills, both important in graduate work, according to Payne. The ETS will also replace many geometry questions with more “real-life”-type math problems on the Quantitative Reasoning section and shorten the Analytical Writing section by 15 minutes, according to the ETS website. Payne said the changes are the product of recommendations made by the GRE board, which is an external advisory board composed of deans of graduate schools from across the country. “The primary question that they...
...homes or face removal by force. The plan has the support of the international community, including the Bush Administration, which sees the withdrawal as a small but vital step toward the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state--even though Sharon has defined it strictly as a strategic move to shorten Israel's defensive lines. A majority of the Israeli public, too, believes it's time for the Gaza settlers to go, not least because the rest of the country's sons in the army keep dying in order to protect a few thousand families occupying a sliver of congested, hostile...
...These days in the Netherlands and across much of Europe, divisions over euthanasia have largely healed. Polls in the U.K. and France show up to 80% support for legal changes that would allow patients enduring extreme suffering from a terminal illness to request medical assistance to shorten their lives. "The consensus in the Netherlands is that we don't prolong life just because we technically can," explains Johan Legemaate, legal adviser to the Royal Dutch Medical Association. "When a treatment does not improve the patient's situation, a doctor is obliged to stop...
...contractual standoffs that have shaken the orchestra world lately. Four of the so-called Big Five U.S. orchestras-- Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia--came close to lockouts last year. Others, in cities like Cincinnati, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y., have had to cut pay, eliminate positions or shorten the season. The sour notes stem from aging and diminishing audiences as well as insufficient endowments and rising administrative, production and health-care costs. Philadelphia Orchestra management once referred to the skyrocketing costs as "a road map to extinction." An overstatement perhaps, but the chords are growing more ominous. --By Jeremy...
...added that the term would likely shorten the summer break, which the department considers a more valuable time for in-depth research...