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...only about the bills. It's also a matter of pride. Columbia economics professor Sally Davidson is quoted in the article as saying, “In addition, Columbia’s peers—Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT all have AAA ratings—does Columbia want to drop below this group? Probably...
...steward of the nation's monetary policy, Bernanke—who went on to earn his doctorate from MIT and teach at Stanford and Princeton—kept interest rates aggressively low in order to stimulate borrowing and lending and expanded the role...
...real student-athlete ethos still exists at that level, or that Division I football is still a respected institution. It isn't - especially when it chooses its champion via the opaque and convoluted Bowl Championship Series. That's why other prestigious universities that have Division I programs, like Stanford and Northwestern, no longer lose sleep over the fact that their teams aren't in the trophy hunt. Win or lose, their devotees fill the stadiums each Saturday because they enjoy a premium college football game. But they don't suffer existential meltdowns if the team fails to reach the Meineke...
...French psychologist Alfred Binet began developing a standardized test of intelligence, work that would eventually be incorporated into a version of the modern IQ test, dubbed the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. By World War I, standardized testing was standard practice: aptitude quizzes called Army Mental Tests were conducted to assign U.S. servicemen jobs during the war effort. But grading was at first done manually, an arduous task that undermined standardized testing's goal of speedy mass assessment. It would take until 1936 to develop the first automatic test scanner, a rudimentary computer called the IBM 805. It used electrical current...
...economists - as well as other health experts - are watching in dismay as the legislation's reforms and cost-saving measures are whittled away by powerful special interests. "It may be that the intersection between what economists consider good policy and [what Washington considers] good politics is very small," says Stanford University's Alan Garber, an organizer of the group who signed the letter to Obama...