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...even universities lure the "best of the best" with higher and higher salaries. Twenty years from now, perhaps we will find ourselves being evaluated for promotions or being ranked by our students or by our professional peers. But no test will await us on our first, fifth or tenth wedding anniversaries to determine whether our marriages until that point have been excellent, good or merely satisfactory. The cost of our best friend's birthday gift to us is no gauge of how well we have played our part as a friend. Our children will not assign their love...
...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's population, account for just a tenth of this year's admissions. Berkeley admissions director Bob Laird argues that "the outcomes might have been significantly worse had the new policy not been adopted." He may be right, but to a great many Californians, that's cold comfort...
...Harvard bullpen, however, once again made things interesting, as sophomore Michael Madden entered the game for Marcucci to start the tenth...
...program is a marvel of size, weighing in at under a megabyte-one-tenth to one-twentieth the size of Internet Explorer and Netscape. Similarly, its hardware requirements are downright parsimonious, working well on a 386 class PC with six megabytes of memory...
...well be the only answer. If XF11 had been discovered only 90 million miles away and on a beeline toward Earth, for example, the equivalent of a 1-megaton explosion would have been necessary to shove it into a safe orbit. Had it first been spotted at just a tenth of that distance, a 100-megaton blast would have been needed to turn it away...