Word: spikeness
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...Dooney boys, who come from the Magnolia Projects just west of downtown New Orleans, home of the slain rapper Soulja Slim, are old rivals of the 3'n'G (named for the intersection of Third and Galvez). "This wasn't a Houston thing," says Harris. "You see a spike in homicides in New Orleans in July and August, then the hurricane comes and they are displaced to Houston and elsewhere...
...really broke [the] momentum” of response rates and contributed to their sluggish start. Administrators and faculty sent e-mail reminders to students in hopes of making course evaluation “part of the culture” at Harvard, Kane said. He also said there was a spike in response rates in the final days that evaluations were open. To encourage greater participation in evaluations, Kane said he supports shifting to a Yale-style evaluation process, where students cannot view course grades until they have completed evaluations, either by offering feedback or choosing an opt-out feature...
Corruption in politics is, of course, as old as politics itself. So the current spike in prosecutions does raise a rather obvious question that FBI criminal chief Swecker is happy to answer. "I don't think there is more corruption," he says. But with more agents on the job, "we're just trained better and look more to find...
...Cabot students became ill with a 24-hour stomach virus that spread rapidly amongst residents earlier this week. Harvard University Health Services (UHS) saw roughly 15 Cabot students suffering from gastroenteritis between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, according to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal. This represents a spike in occurrences, said Rosenthal, who added that UHS generally sees between six and eight cases of gastroenteritis per week in the winter. The increase and concentrated area of cases suggest that the virus was likely “communally transmitted, or came from one common source” within the House...
...families and carrying a burden. Our message should not be that one sex is more sensitive than the other. We must lead by example, not meaningless rhetoric. Erol Palantekin Dublin, Ohio, U.S. The Solar Solution Your story on the French nuclear-energy industry said that because of the recent spike in oil prices and environmental concerns about fossil-fuel emissions, nuclear power is looking attractive again [Nov. 14]. But the sun is also a proven source of energy, and the technology for tapping into solar power is available. In one of the simplest of several variations, an array of mirrors...