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...paper money. If you lose your digital cash, for example, you will be able to replace it instantly by asking your computer to invalidate the disappeared digits and replace them with a fresh set. And unlike paper money--which stops earning interest as it shoots out of the ATM slot--smart money can keep earning interest until the moment you spend...
Guerin made it 2-1 on a power-play goal at 11:02, scoring from the slot through a screen by Ryan Smyth...
...header versus Princeton on Saturday was supposed to be a matchup between the two best pitching staffs in the Ivy League. A pitching duel is definitely what emerged, two one-run ball games resulted and the Crimson showed that the Tigers will have to settle for the No. 2 slot among the best pitching staffs in the Ancient Eight...
...state university system. In response, last year an alliance of state legislators came up with the "10% Plan," which was first applied to this year's pool of applicants. Any Texas high school student who graduates in the top 10% of his or her class is guaranteed a slot at any of the state's public universities, including the highly selective University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M. At many of the state's public high schools, most of the students are black or Latino, so sponsors of the plan expected the new law to boost minority enrollments...
...Texas, the preliminary results of these experiments are in. And the hopes they inspired--that more minority students could be brought on board through approaches that don't address race head on--have deflated. At Berkeley minority admissions have plummeted. Of the 10,509 applicants who were offered a slot this year, only 2.4% are African American, down from 5.6% a year ago. Chicano students of Mexican descent, about 11% of the applicants accepted in 1997, made up just 6% this year. Taken together, African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos of all backgrounds, who constitute about 34% of the state...