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Clever finished third in the javelin with a 57.58m. His throw was seven meters short of the winner. Senior Peter Weed was fifth with a throw of 51.28m. Cancro placed eighth in the event...
...what did in the campaign train, but television played a role--and so did the shifting U.S. population. "Trains used to come to the front door of America," says Bill Withuhn, an authority on trains at the Smithsonian. "Now they go to the backyards." Depots are shuttered; junkyards and weed patches and winos too often greet the rail traveler...
...sunlight. These crystals make the local pot, which has been perfected through indoor growing under virtual laboratory conditions, twice as potent as competing varieties from Northern California and Oregon and six times as strong as most common Colombian and Mexican products. "This," Emery says, smiling at the minty-smelling weed, "is the top of the market." Across town, Dave Williams, an investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees--but he's not smiling. "British Columbia," he says ruefully, "now produces the best marijuana in the world...
...This is believed to be the first time charter schools have been responsible for public school closings. Those in favor of charters say the closings prove that they work - that through competition they weed out underperfoming schools. But opponents of school choice argue that the charters cream off the best students - or at least the ones with the most concerned parents - and have left Kansas City's public school system with fewer schools and a higher concentration of poor students...
Every year, students in Computer Science 50: "Introduction to Computer Science" (CS50) debate whether the course's instructors really use a special program to weed out cheaters and plagiarists...