Word: wakefulness
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...various improvements that the graduate community helped us design, but the issue of access and having enough seats and centers for all students kept us from launching the new test,” ETS spokesman Tom Ewing said. ETS undertook the effort to revamp the GRE in the wake of security concerns. Some test questions began showing up on Web sites in Asia about five years ago. Ben Baron, vice president of graduate programs at Kaplan Test Prep, said that the ETS decision was largely beneficial for students—who now don’t have to worry about...
...ESPN and Yahoo! Sports. He was fired from his last coaching position at St. John’s six games into the 2003 season, becoming the first basketball coach in the history of the Big East Conference to be fired during a season. He was let go in the wake of the arrests of two players and a poor 2-4 start.Last spring, the NCAA placed St. John’s men’s basketball on two years’ probation and docked the school one basketball scholarship for this season because of a financial violation under Jarvis?...
...list goes on, and Murphy keeps self-consciously adding to it. But what else can he do? These are the albums he owns; it’s the music he likes; and making more of it is what he does best. So all Murphy can do is wake up in the morning and turn that hangover throb into a disco pulse that will sustain another party, lead to another painful sunrise, and give everyone some more anthems. “We do what we’re programmed to do,” Murphy says simply...
Amaker appears to be the less controversial of the two prominent candidates, as Jarvis carries the baggage of being the first Big East Conference coach to ever be fired in the midst of a season. He was let go six games into the 2003 season in the wake of the arrests of two players, and it was later disclosed that a violation of NCAA financial regulations occurred under his watch at St. John...
...While the challenges are clearly daunting, some scientists complained in the wake of February's IPCC report that sensationalist media coverage painting an inevitable and apocalyptic picture of climate change paralyzes rather than galvanizes the public. But the unwritten word behind the IPCC's dire predictions, and its source of hope, is if. If we can limit and later eliminate carbon emissions, if we can make a rapid transition to cleaner energy, if we help poorer nations adapt to the changes underway, then the worst consequences will be averted. But that can only happen if we act globally...