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...SATs and Math 21a examinations, the majority of the test-takers don’t even receive full credit for a single problem. According to Ravi Vakil, co-author of a book on the competition from 1985-2000 and the Putnam coordinator at Stanford, the median score is usually zero or one. “Keeping in mind that the people taking the Putnam are self-selected from the smartest mathematical minds in the continent, this undoubtedly is the hardest test in the world,” Vakil writes in an e-mail. “Getting somewhere on even...
...definitely had zero training,” said Luke R. Long ’03, who decided to run as an unregistered “bandit” runner with three friends at 10 p.m. Sunday night...
...Europe and North America are piecing together the natural history of SARS. That last effort should be made a lot easier with the Chinese government's decision last week to finally let a who team into Guangdong. Medical detectives may have already found the very first recorded victim - patient zero - a man in the city of Foshan who passed the virus on to four other people before he recovered...
...added that the principle of co-prosperity instead of a “zero sum struggle for legitimacy” had become South Korea’s policy, so a reconciliation might be possible...
...It’s not a zero-sum game,” he said. “The renovations will still happen, but in the meantime, we’re just trying to make it a little easier to deal with dining here...