Short Tacks (The Capital)

28 August 2008, 11:52 am

PUMA Ocean Racing departed Rhode Island on Tuesday for its final warm-up before the start of the Volvo Ocean Race. This trans-Atlantic crossing from Newport to Alicante, Spain is no simple feat and will be the final test of the Volvo 70 before the race begins.... read more

SAT scores still at decade low (Columbia Missourian)

27 August 2008, 8:56 pm

For a second straight year, national SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade, a trend attributed to a record number of students now taking the test. The 1.52 million students who took the test is a slight increase from last year b... read more

Has Google Lost Its Mojo? (The Motley Fool)

27 August 2008, 9:22 am

Google may be losing brownie points with the hipsters.... read more

Yale hoping practice will make perfect (New Haven Register)

27 August 2008, 12:07 am

WEST HAVEN — With extra pep in their step, shoulder pads resting comfortably underneath their uniforms and helmets tightly fastened, the Yale football team headed to Clint Frank Field Tuesday morning with teammates to hit and coaches to impress.... read more

Harvard Tops Princeton, But Students Dismiss Rankings (The Harvard Crimson)

25 August 2008, 1:24 pm

For the first time in a dozen years, Harvard won an unchallenged first in the U.S. News "Best Colleges" ranking, an achievement that knocked Princeton off of the pedestal on which it had sat for the past eight years.... read more

Turmoil at Mount Sinai Medical Center (Miami Herald)

25 August 2008, 8:29 am

Some weeks ago, heart surgeon Don Williams wrote a letter to the chairman of the board of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, complaining about the institution where he's worked for almost 20 years, much of that time as head of the department of surgery:... read more