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...American parents should worry less about the precise number of minutes their students devote to homework and more about the uneven and poorly conceived way in which it is assigned. "What defines the homework problem in the U.S. today is variation," Cooper says. Less than one-third of U.S. school districts provide any guidelines to parents and teachers on how much homework children should receive and what purpose it's supposed to serve. In places that have instituted formal homework policies, a semblance of sanity has arrived. In Hinsdale, Ill., parents often complained that their children got too much homework...
...auto industry had a good though uneven year in 1998, then many foreign brands had a great one. U.S. manufacturers continue to benefit from the popularity of light trucks and SUVs, sales of which grew 8.2% last year. But in a market in which sales of traditional sedans are stalled, car buyers have lately been going for upscale vehicles at unprecedented levels. In 1998 Mercedes' sales rose 39.2%, Jaguar's increased 15.4%, Lexus' jumped 60.2% (partly due to the addition of the RX300 to its lineup), while Audi's and Porsche's rose 39% and 33%, respectively. Overall sales...
Apart from losing the benefits of diversity, the Brown students said they are worried that uneven racial distribution will lead to additional strain on the school's residential minority peer counselors, who complete extra training on issues of race and class and offer workshops on those areas to first-years of color...
...Hampshire Street resident reports that at approximately 5:40 p.m. she fell while walking on Hampshire Street near Prospect Street due to an uneven section in the sidewalk...
Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara said the perpetrator was a white male, in his late twenties, six feet tall and with light brown hair, uneven eyes and a long face. He was wearing a sky blue Yankees cap and a dark blue or green jacket, she said...