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...board “has made no showing that permitting the petitioner sixty minutes of additional break time on each testing day will in any way disrupt the national standard for the exam,” he wrote in the opinion...
Money, money, money. Cambridge real estate is costly by any standard, especially around the illustrious Harvard Square area. Yet every year, despite the price tag, some undergraduates buck the prevailing trend with their decision to leave the brick (or concrete) walls of their Harvard Houses to live off-campus. And while fleeing dormitory life is common at some colleges, at Harvard only a small percentage of students pursue this option...
...summit raises hopes that the long-time climate skeptic may be thawing - the U.N. process could easily stall on its own. The Kyoto Protocol required emission cuts from developed countries that ratified the treaty, but not from developing countries, including fast-growing emitters like India and China. That double standard was the stated reason the U.S. refused to ratify Kyoto, and it needs to be fixed in the next round of climate negotiations. But there was little said in New York Monday to indicate that a solution would be found soon. Developing countries insist with much justification that they...
...metal cup) - a remake of an old design, one that doctors were using 40 years ago. In the 1970s, the metal-on-metal construction was abandoned by orthopedists worldwide because it wasn't very stable and failed to relieve pain as reliably as the current metal-on-plastic standard, a metal stem and ball in a plastic cup, which has cured so many millions of their hip arthritis. But about four years ago, the metal-on-metal design was re-introduced in the U.S. with some small structural modifications. Manufacturers are now hyping and marketing it hard to orthopedists...
...Unfortunately, we didn’t perform up to that standard,” junior cornerback Andrew Berry says. “By no means do we think that our performance against Holy Cross is characteristic of the best effort we can put forth. We’re trying to put that behind us. We want to be the strength of this team. We really think...