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  Encyclopedia: Asturias
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a polimath and prominent reformer and politician of the late 18th century, was born in the seaside town of Gijón (Xixón in the Asturian language).
Letizia, Princess of Asturias, a native of Oviedo and wife of Felipe, Prince of Asturias The Princess of Asturias (née Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, born September 15, 1972 in Oviedo, Spain) is the wife of Felipe, Prince of Asturias, the heir apparent to the Spanish throne.
HRH The Prince of Asturias Prince Felipe, Prince of Asturias (Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia; born January 30, 1968), styled HRH The Prince of Asturias, is the third child of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Asturias   (6110 words)

  
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A ranking in the top tier can mean more success for institutions as they recruit graduate students in a highly competitive environment.
Rankings of graduate schools and doctoral programs released for this year cover only a small portion of the programs offered at Ohio State and other U.S. institutions.
Specialty programs in nuclear engineering and industrial/manufacturing engineering were ranked 14th, materials science and aeronautical and aerospace engineering both ranked 17th, mechanical engineering ranked 19th, civil engineering ranked 23rd, chemical engineering ranked 24th and electrical engineering ranked 26th.
www.osu.edu /osu/newsrel/Archive/00-03-31_OSU_Graduate_Programs_Among_Nations_Best.html   (734 words)

  
 Powell Goldstein LLP, Law Firm: News: POGO Ranked 8th in the Nation by Summer Associates in 2002
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP ranks 8th in the nation in a survey of summer associates.
Sally Weaver, Chief Professional Development Officer, attributed the ranking to a more focused effort this year, holding the summer associate retreat earlier in the summer, and hands on attention from the partners in the Firm.
L Magazine, a publication for law students, reported on the remarkable rise in the Firm's rankings from 79th in 2001 to 8th in 2002.
www.pogolaw.com /news-firm-archive-682.html   (131 words)

  
 TitansRadio Network Titans Vs. The League: Final Regular Season Stats
Offense: The Titans finished 8th in the AFC in total offense averaging 130.3 yards per game rushing (4th best in the AFC) and 204.1 yards passing.
Leading Rusher: Eddie George ranked 2nd in the AFC behind Edgerin James with 403 carries for 1509 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Sacks: Jevon Kearse ranked sixth in the AFC with 11.5 sacks.
www.titansradio.com /news2000/news741890.html   (375 words)

  
 The Daily Texan
The rankings, which appear in the December issue of the Academy of Management Journal, judge business schools based on the number of articles faculty members published in 20 top-tier scholarly journals from 1986-1998.
The McCombs School's eighth place ranking is another indication of its position among the elite business schools in the nation, said Paul Newman, associate dean for research in the business school.
The rankings indicate that faculty research done at the University from 1994-1998 increased dramatically, with the school ranked fourth overall during that time, whereas it ranked 14th from 1986-1989 and seventh from 1990-1993.
tspweb02.tsp.utexas.edu /webarchive/12-07-00/2000120706_s01_UTBusiness.html   (430 words)

  
 Penn Wrestling Ranked 8th For Third Consecutive Week Six Wrestlers Ranked In The Top 12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The team remained ranked 8th in the nation in the NWCA NCAA Division I Top 25 Team Rankings while six wrestlers were ranked in the top 12 including five in the top 10 in the latest Amateur Wrestling News poll.
The Quakers finished 8th at the national duals, which was the first time in the history of Penn wrestling, that the team had placed in this prestigious event.
It is the first time in school history that the team placed in the national duals, it is the first time they have been ranked 8th in the country for three consecutive weeks and it also the first time that five wrestlers are ranked in the top 10 in the country at the same time.
www.wrestlingreport.com /penn_wrestling_ranked_8th.htm   (572 words)

  
 Women's Basketball -- University of Maryland Terrapins Official Athletic Site
Ranked 8th in the final Associated Press poll.
Ranked as high as 16th during the season.
Ranked No.1 in the nation in scoring defense for the month of January.
umterps.collegesports.com /sports/w-baskbl/archive/md-w-baskbl-weller.html   (574 words)

  
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This year, the university ranked 8th in student diversity, up four places from a tie for 12th last year.
ASU was also ranked in the Best Universities–Masters Category, for those universities that offer master’s degrees with few, if any, doctoral programs.
Rankings are tabulated based on a variety of statistics, including average graduation rate and student to faculty ratios.
www.aug.edu /public_information_and_publications/Sept03/news1.html   (122 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: State ranked 8th in homeland security spending
The state ranked eighth among the 50 states in federal Department of Homeland Security expenditures in fiscal 2003.
Wyoming ranked last with $12.5 million, although on a per capita basis Wisconsin faired the worst, with spending of just $12 per person.
Likely contributing to Washington state's rank is its border with Canada, its major ports and its public ferry system, the nation's largest.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002056063_webfunds06.html   (457 words)

  
 About Carnegie Mellon: Facts
In specialty areas, the school ranked, 3rd in Technology, 10th in Global Scope, 11th in Intellectual Capital, 12th in Selectivity of Applicants and 14th in Job Placement Before Graduation.
In U.S. News & World Report's 2006 graduate school rankings, Carnegie Mellon's Psychology Department was rated 9th overall, 2nd in Cognitive Psychology and 5th in Experimental Psychology.
Carnegie Mellon ranked 11th in applied mathematics, 28th in physics, 34th in mathematical sciences, 51st in chemistry and 54th in biological sciences.
www.cmu.edu /home/about/about_facts.html   (1646 words)

  
 CAASports.com - Colonial Athletic Association - Men's Lacrosse - Notebook
In team categories, Delaware is 1st in face-off percentage, 3rd in man down defense, 8th in scoring margin, 9th in scoring defense and 11th in scoring offense.
Thirteen of the 18 losses have come against teams ranked in the Top 20…Delaware’s Alex Smith continued to lead the nation in face-off percentage (.739) and was 2nd in ground balls per game (8.5) in the latest NCAA stats through April 17.
The Hens, who were ranked 3rd in the nation in scoring offense (12.2 gpg), were held to their lowest goal total since a 14-3 setback to Loyola in the 2000 season opener.
www.caasports.com /sports/mlacrosse/notebook.asp   (11691 words)

  
 Women's Swimming And Diving Team Ranked 8th Nationally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
     The Texas A&M women¹s swimming and diving team is ranked No. 8 in the nation according to the latest edition of the College Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) dual meet poll released this week.
Georgia is ranked ahead of defending national champion Auburn for the top spot while Florida is third.
The University of Texas is ranked No. 4 in the nation while Arizona comes in at No. 5.
www.tamu.edu /univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/04/120304-1.html   (191 words)

  
 Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The CU system's climb in rankings was fueled by a 22.8 percent spike in federal research and development expenditures during the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
That was the third-largest increase in research funds among the top 100 public and private universities, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education report published this month.
Among public institutions, CU's receipt of $300.4 million in research funds ranked fourth in the nation for the fiscal year ending last June.
www.colorado.edu /physics/Web/index12.html   (178 words)

  
 Region's schools are ranked 8th in U.S.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Secondary schools in the Austin, Texas, area ranked first, according to the study, followed by those in the Washington, D.C., area; West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Fla.; Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, N.J.; Monmouth-Ocean, N.J.; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C.; Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz.; and the Pittsburgh area.
The ranking used data from the Kansas-based magazine's 2003 study of 2,800 secondary school districts throughout the nation.
Officials for education groups said they were not surprised by Pittsburgh's ranking in the survey, based on the criteria that the magazine used.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04128/312646.stm   (896 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: LV area ranked 8th most dangerous
The Las Vegas metropolitan area is ranked as the eighth most dangerous in the nation in a report released today.
Metro Police couldn't be reached for comment this morning, but in the past law enforcement authorities and those who study crime have questioned the reliability of the numbers on which the study's rankings are based because of the differences in the way the numbers are compiled from city to city and across jurisdictions.
The scores given in this and last year's rankings were calculated using the same methodology and are comparable, but Morgan Quitno cautioned comparisons in rankings because 16 cities,are in this year's survey that were not considered last year.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/sun/2004/nov/22/517866454.html?rape   (604 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Junior Marcus Andy is ranked #1 in the country at the weight of 197 pounds.
Juniors Atrem Krylov and Kyle Bickford rank fifth and seventh in the pre-season rankings.
In the heavyweight division, junior Dan Kunkes is the #7 ranked in the preseason rankings.
www.wrestlingreport.com /menlo_wrestling_8_in_naia.htm   (132 words)

  
 BYU NewsNet - Utah women ranked 8th nationally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Although Utah women were ranked among the healthiest in the nation, they struggled in some categories of women's health care.
Utah ranked second for having the fewest number of breast cancer deaths and coronary heart disease deaths among women in the nation.
Utah ranked 43rd in the nation when it came to women receiving prenatal care during their first trimester.
newsnet.byu.edu /story.cfm/50300   (619 words)

  
 UMHS Press Release: Medical School Ranking
U.S. News and World Report also ranks medical schools in eight specialties, and the U-M Medical School is ranked in the top 10 for four: family medicine (ranked 4th, a jump of six places from last year), geriatrics (ranked 7th), internal medicine (ranked 8th) and women's health (ranked 9th).
In determining its overall national rankings, U.S. News and World Report considers several quality indicators, including reputation as determined by surveys of medical school deans and senior faculty; amount of research funding from the National Institutes of Health; student selectivity; and faculty/student ratios.
This year's ranking was based in part on a new "selectivity" rank, which combines the mean composite scores of the entering class of 2002 on the Medical College Admission Test, the undergraduate grade-point average of the class, and the proportion of applicants accepted.
www.med.umich.edu /opm/newspage/2003/medranking.htm   (447 words)

  
 UC Santa Barbara Women's XC Ranked 5th in the West
October 8th, 2003 - UC Santa Barbara women's cross country is ranked 5th in the West Region according to the latest poll released by the Women's Intercollegiate Cross Country Coaches Association.
The Gauchos finished 8th in 2002, their highest ever finish at the Regional was 6th in 1995.
Stanford who is ranked #2 in the latest national poll holds down the top spot in the West, followed by Arizona State who is #3 in the nation, and UCLA who is ranked 12th nationally.
www.ucsbtrack.com /Xc/10-08-03Release.html   (174 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: WND ranked 8th among news sites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Updated monthly, the website ranking service -- based on research data from PCDataOnline, a leading Internet research firm -- has ranked WorldNetDaily in the 'Top 9' news sites -- as number 9 -- since Top9.com's inception in December.
During the same week, WND's unique users were ranked at 121,000 -- the netpaper's highest tally ever for a one-week period.
There were also 1,511,000 page views during the one-week period, and the average time spent by readers was 30 minutes and 9 seconds, making WND the 4th "stickiest" news site on the Internet for the week.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17458   (317 words)

  
 Rankings: U.Va. Facts at a Glance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The University also continues to be ranked in the Top 25 in the Great School, Great Value category, this year coming in at No. 17, up from No. 21 last year.
The survey ranks schools based on "return on investment," which is determined by compensation five years after graduation minus tuition and the forgone salary during school.
Kiplinger's rankings were based on a combination of quality, cost, and financial aid measures, with quality accounting for two-thirds of the rating.
www.virginia.edu /Facts/Glance_Rankings.htm   (987 words)

  
 UMHS News - UMHS Ranks 8th
UMHS ranked 8th this year, maintaining its coveted standing spot of being among the nation's leading health care institutions.
Again this year, UMHS was recognized in nearly all the specialties, ranking in the top 15 in 12 of the categories.
This year, the U-M Medical School ranked in the top 10 best research-oriented medical schools by two measures - 8th by U.S. News and World Report and 9th in federal funded grants from the National Institutes of Health.
www.med.umich.edu /opm/newspage/2002/usnewrank.htm   (575 words)

  
 Cincinnati Childrens Ranks Among Top 10 Pediatric Hospitals, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Cincinnati Children's ranked 8th in 2003, 9th in 2002 and 10th in 2001.
The 29 hospitals ranked in pediatrics were cited by at least 3 percent of physicians who responded to U.S. News surveys in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
Earlier this year, U.S. News ranked the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center the fourth best pediatric program at a medical school in the United States, behind only Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania.
www.cincinnatichildrens.org /about/news/release/2004/7-us-news.htm   (478 words)

  
 Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked 8th in nation by 'Child' magazine
The Children's Hospital has been ranked in the top 10 children's hospitals in the nation, according to Child magazine.
Hospital Chief Executive Officer Jim Shmerling said he is thrilled the hospital was so well received, but he said he is most proud of the fact that much of the information for the survey came from data collected before the new hospital opened.
Also, questions were asked about staff qualifications; nurse-to-patient ratios; research funding and the number of clinical trials; the availability of playrooms, lending libraries, and activities to help a child's hospital experience seem less frightening; and family services like support groups and sleeping accommodations for parents.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-01/vumc-cha010405.php   (835 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: LV area ranked 8th most dangerous
The Las Vegas metropolitan area is ranked as the eighth most dangerous in the nation in a survey released today.
The other communities in the top five were Amherst, N.Y., which had been ranked as the safest city for the past four years, followed by Mission Viejo, Calif., and Clarkstown, N.Y. The rankings look at the rate for six crime categories: Murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft.
But law enforcement authorities and those who study crime questioned the reliability of the numbers on which the study's rankings are based because of a lack of uniformity in in numbers from city to city and across jurisdictions.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/lv-crime/2004/nov/22/517866005.html   (480 words)

  
 ICT GROUP: News: Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
To achieve this honor and be a part of the list, companies were required to have annual sales and EPS growth of at least 25% for three consecutive years as well as $50 million in revenue for the past four quarters and a minimum market cap of $50 million.
Companies are ranked according to their three-year results in sales growth, earnings growth and return on invested capital.
was ranked 8th in Outbound and 14th in Inbound among the top 50 teleservice agencies.
www.ictgroup.com /news/awards.html   (1175 words)

  
 PEC Solutions Ranked 8th in BusinessWeek's "Hot Growth Companies" Issue
PEC was ranked No. 8, up from last year's ranking of No. 30.
Our top-ten ranking is the result of the significant growth and continuing opportunity of the federal government market, as well as our success in delivering technology solutions that help our clients deliver public services and protect and defend America.
This ranking is also a tribute to the focus, hard work, and commitment of all our staff," said Dr. David C. Karlgaard, President and CEO of PEC Solutions.
www.pec.com /ir/press/business_week.html   (343 words)

  
 Office of Public Information: News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
MSU ranked 8th in north by U.S. News
The U.S. News rankings come within weeks of MSU's selection as one of only seven college and universities in the Northeast that "offer the best value (quality of education versus cost) for your tuition dollar," according to Kaplan/Newsweek's "College Catalog 2001," a national survey of high school guidance counselors.
In compiling its rankings, U.S. News looked at an institution's academic reputation (25 percent of the final score), student selectivity (15 percent), faculty resources (20 percent), graduation and retention rate (25 percent), financial resources (10 percent) and alumni giving (5 percent).
www.montclair.edu /pages/publications/news/newsrelease900usnews.html   (342 words)

  
 HoopsUSA.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Ranked as the #9 guard in NY by HoopScoops he is definitely someone to watch.
Posted by mark on 10/02/2003 02:33:12 PM Following 8th graders is fun but I think all too often the incredible expectations placed on 13 yr olds turns out to be a little too much.
I also think the practice of ranking kids nationally at this point is lunacy--not to mention very often innacurate.
www.hoopsusa.com /f_viewtopic.cfm?trnbr=932   (324 words)

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