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2006-06-21
Burlingame will not drop speed limit
San Mateo Daily Journal, CA - Jun 15, 2006 A speed zone survey is conducted by tracking the average speed traveled on a street on an average day. The speeds are broken into percentiles.
Chou also looked at California Drive in three sections. In the previous report, California was studied in two parts — south of Burlingame Avenue to Peninsula and north of Burlingame Avenue to Murchison Drive. This time, Chou separated the area of California Drive from Broadway to Murchison Drive since “it’s an entirely different animal” in a residential area.

2006-06-20
Sen. Duncan praises tax solution to school funds
San Angelo Standard-Times, TX - Jun 7, 2006 These percentiles indicate where a school district ranks based on its property wealth per student - the wealthiest school district in Texas is at the 100th
To accomplish this, the state will step in with funding for education that had been provided by the local property tax. This state investment will equalize education dollars to the historic level of the 88th percentile, far above the 73rd percentile now funded. Students across Texas will benefit from education funding at the level of the Dallas Independent School District, which is presently ranked at the 88th percentile. These percentiles indicate where a school district ranks based on its property wealth per student - the wealthiest school district in Texas is at the 100th percentile.

2006-06-19
The Hordaland Homocysteine Study: A Community-Based Study of
International News Service, Australia - Jun 5, 2006 gender. For the continuous independent variables, the results shown are confined to the 0.5 to 99.5 percentiles of the variable.

2006-06-18
Barrington High School plans end to class rank
Pioneer Press Online, IL - Jun 1, 2006 Tuesday that the high school phase out its use of class rank, which shows how students compare with their peers, and instead report percentiles to college
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2006-06-16
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 83, No. 6, S1526
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription), CA - Jun 8, 2006 in the United States, as indicated by CSFII data from 1994�1996 and 1998, is 3.7 g/d (0.9 oz/wk; 1/3 serving), with the 50th and 90th percentiles at 0 g/d (58

2006-06-15
High-tech cheating in Asia's high-stakes exams
USA Today - Jun 8, 2006 Only those who score in the top percentiles have a chance of admission to top schools, while those who flunk will need to repeat the grade to retake the test.
Reinforcing this searingly competitive environment is Asia's traditional emphasis on standardized testing and rote learning, rather than personal skills and potential. China has relied on a centralized Confucian system to cherry-pick the good and the great for thousands of years, and the enterprising dropout made good (Bill Gates, anyone?) isn't a role model that many parents would recognize. While schools like Harvard or Oxford may draw on interviews and written aptitude to find the best applicants, there's little appetite in Asia for shifting away from a centralized test. So the pressure cooker of an all-or-nothing exam isn't going away.

2006-06-14
Childhood Obesity - Back to the Future
The Common Voice, SC - Jun 7, 2006 and families the opportunity to redefine normal growth in infancy and rethink the social norm in which parents boast about 95th percentiles for their babies.".
For decades must we have endured the message that eating less fat, specifically less saturated fat, is the panacea for weight management and health. Over the same period of time this message was preached, two out of every three adults have grown overweight or obese; our children are now being affected - not only are they too growing overweight and obese, they're now suffering from cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, high cholesterol, arthritis and a host of other obesity related illness.

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3. Disease-specific Reference Equations for Lung Function in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
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5. Assessing the MPC''s fan charts
The MPC places considerable weight on its economic forecasts when setting monetary policy. But there is inevitably uncertainty around the outlook for the economy, and to communicate this, the MPC pub