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Chemistry 5, Mathematics 21a and ComputerScience 50 are the ninth, tenth and eleventhlargest classes respectively at 293, 284 and 280students.CrimsonAmelia E. Morrow...
...newspapers, magazines, TV, the U.S. political system and America Online--all enterprises that are apparently healthy. So far. But this time I mean it. Never mind what the abbreviation stands for; MP3 refers to a technology that allows you to squeeze CD-quality music down to less than a tenth of its digital size, while retaining virtually all of its lovely sound. That makes it small enough to send to anyone online--which is exactly what's happening...
...Back on the Street -- because, as the ad says, people work on Wednesday -- traders will be watching the numbers for July durable goods orders. The consensus estimate is down one-tenth of one percent, just like last month...
Suriname's pristine tropical rain forests are coveted by Asian timber companies. But last week the tiny country (pop. 400,000) announced that it is setting aside a tenth of its land--some 4 million acres--as a nature reserve, forgoing short-term profits for revenues from science and ecotourism. Conservation International, which brokered the deal, hopes it will be a model for other developing countries...
...Ruth's accomplishments are diminished by one brutal fact: he didn't play against black athletes. One-tenth of the population, and surely a far larger proportion of those motivated to succeed in athletics, never had a chance to test Ruth. I hate to admit it, but it may be that the Babe was more George Mikan than Michael Jordan...