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Texas social workers will begin conducting DNA tests today to identify the 416 children taken into custody from the fundamentalist Mormon ranch near Eldorado since April 3. A district court judge granted the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) permission to test the children last Friday, as the agency's custody workers continued to struggle with the serious, complicated task of determining which children belong to whom - a task further clouded by the fact that children and mothers gave evasive, shifting answers during interviews...
...said Szentgyorgyi, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory. The astro-comb “gives you lots and lots of ticks on you ruler, it’s like having rulings of a thousandth of an inch.” The scientists say they will test the device this summer at the Mt. Hopkins Observatory in Arizona in preparation for use as part of a joint operation by Harvard and the University of Geneva that will be based in the Canary islands. The New Earths Initiative, to which Harvard will contribute $6.5 million of astronomical equipment, including the astro...
...areas. On the 2007 MCAS exam, 91 percent of students passed the English Language Arts (ELA) exam, compared with 79 percent in 2003; 90 percent passed the Mathematics exam, compared with 69 percent in 2003. But critics of Fowler-Finn have assailed him for being too “test-oriented” in his pedagogical emphasis and “misleading” when presenting MCAS data. And despite improvement, an achievement gap between white and minority students persists. RE-EXAMINING THE GAPCRLS senior Emma L. Shreefter said that she thinks the district takes a “skewed?...
...point is that there are real advantages to having your factory in your backyard--from being able to test new fabrics and make changes quickly to fostering collaboration with suppliers on innovations like stain resistance to having a handy place to iron and repackage ties on their way to outlet stores. "We do a lot on the fly, which would be hard to do offshore," says Laura Rowen, director of manufacturing...
Something is about to change--but almost certainly for the worse. Higher labor costs, a strengthening Chinese currency and soaring raw-materials prices are bad enough. Now a slowdown in global growth and a likely full-blown recession in the U.S. are about to stress-test China's manufacturing sector like never before--and could result in the shuttering of thousands of factories and cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Makers of low-end goods are already suffering. The Guangdong city of Huidong was home to 3,000 shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many...