Word: stemming
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...adding one grade to the top of the spectrum will hardly stem the tide of grade inflation that has swept Harvard for the last century. Adding an A-plus would address a symptom of grade inflation but would do nothing to address the problem’s root causes. Grades have steadily increased for years—what would prevent them from continuing to creep upwards, until 50 percent of grades given out are either As or A-pluses...
...grade inflation has been an ongoing problem, only a comprehensive solution can stem the tide of confusing standards. We hope that our solution, as we will present tomorrow, can begin to address some of the diverse dimensions of this problem and provide some direction toward an effective reform plan...
...exist on television. While social issues including teen pregnancy, drug addiction and divorce have become the province of family melodramas like “Seventh Heaven,” the generation-gap sitcom has disappeared as controversies like the Vietnam War have been replaced by less-impassioned debates over stem cells and soft money. The sitcom legacy of “Family Ties” lives on in other precocious TV youngsters, most prominently Lisa Simpson and Malcolm Wilkerson of “Malcolm in the Middle...
...council, whose members were officially announced Jan. 16, will consider various issues in bioethics, such as those related to embryo and stem cell research, assisted reproduction, cloning, end-of-life issues and the uses of knowledge and techniques derived from human genetics and the neurosciences...
...council, whose members were officially announced Jan. 16, will consider various issues in bioethics, such as those related to embryo and stem cell research, assisted reproduction, cloning, end-of-life issues and the uses of knowledge and techniques derived from human genetics and the neurosciences...