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...could be viewed as raciallly offensive: "I think one problem with admissions is that too many qualified white students are not getting the spots they've earned," he says. "These students work hard all through school and then lose their spots to members of certain groups who have lower test scores, and come from less challenging environments. They get an unfair advantage." Crosby deliberately did not include the words "black" or "African American" in the conversation, in order to distinguish glances that could be based on simple association - looking at a black person when "black" is mentioned - from those looking...
...alien fish article highlights the inherent contradiction in scientific journalism: science requires readers to be smart, while journalism assumes everyone is an idiot. As a result, scientific journalism removes the icky numbers (t-tests? Who has ever heard of a t-test?), waters down the “ginormous” words to second-grader speak, and adds a bit of flair. The razzle-dazzled glittered-up remains typically fall into one of two general forms. The first à la “alien fish” is a hackneyed comparison that links a scientific study to some...
Harvard continued to test new rotations, as the Crimson continues its attempt to fill the outside hitter position left vacant after senior Jordan Weitzen was sidelined by a concussion. Currently, junior Jeff Nathan and freshman Daniel Medina have been substituting for Weitzen, and have stepped into the role rather smoothly. Last night, Nathan nailed eight kills, and Medina secured a hitting percentage...
...Walkability is the absolute test of the overriding social, psychological and physical health of a community,” said Dan E. Burden, founder and executive director of the non-profit Walkable Communities, Inc., and one of the experts involved in the study...
...that Insulza still doesn't face an Andes-sized test in mediating the latest regional crisis. Colombia snubbed the OAS and instead went to the United Nations this week with its complaints against Chavez. Those include what Colombian police call solid evidence gleaned from the laptop computer of the No. 2 commander of the FARC guerrilla army - Raul Reyes, who was killed in Saturday's raid - that Chavez has funneled as much as $300 million to the rebels and should therefore be charged with financing terrorists, who Bogota alleges are also seeking uranium to make a dirty bomb. Uribe, remarkably...