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...Outside the school, the best test of its success comes from fair-minded observers. "If Eton were a business, it would have opened 20 more and be expanding the brand everywhere," says Mulgan. Other schools are doing just that (see box). Now 5-7% of Eton students are foreign, and the boys' range of nationalities and ethnicities is increasing. But Eton's leaders do not aspire to build an empire. On their own turf, their goal is to preserve quality, reform slowly, and set an example others will want to follow. That 1,300 boys can swim in Eton...
...difficulties in tracking MRSA is that doctors rarely check for it. The standard test usually takes a couple of days, and hardly any doctors do it anymore because everyone assumes that most skin infections respond to the usual antibiotics. "HMO's aren't going to be paying for you to do a culture on what they consider to be a [common] skin lesion," Bancroft says...
...Before considering any diagnostic tests, I decided to revisit Dylan's dietary history. When asked just how picky an eater Dylan was, his mom rolled her eyes and said, "This child lives on jelly sandwiches and iced tea." How much iced tea? "Well, a glass with breakfast, a glass or two when he gets home from school and then a couple of more glasses at dinner." What does he drink at lunch? "Chocolate milk." By my count, Dylan was consuming well over 400 mg of caffeine each day. Although the U.S. hasn't yet developed guidelines for caffeine intake...
...support the NSA's monitoring of Americans' phone calls [May 22]. It matters only that such actions violate the Constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause and warrants for such investigations. The Founding Fathers never said the Bill of Rights had to pass a popularity test in order to be enforced. The phones of suspected terrorists have been and should continue to be monitored - with court supervision. Without such oversight, the possibility for abuses of private information is very real. Margery Winters West Simsbury, Connecticut, U.S. Ben Franklin is thought to have written, "Those who would give...
...just the precedent but whether I'd be able to hack it and contribute to the classes," Gottesman says. "I talked to a bunch of alumni and current students and decided it was worth a shot." Gottesman scored in one of the top percentiles on his Graduate Management Admission Test. He also got into Stanford's business school...