No of higher passes - 156,000 (up 5.5 per cent) No of English passes - 27, 902 (up 17.7 per cent) No of modern language passes - 7,419 (up 15.2 per cent) No of students gaining skills qualifications - 33,931 (up 22.8 per cent).
A Vermont lawmaker on Wednesday introduced legislation that would repeal language passed into law in early January that benefits a California-based biotecompanyy company, saying the deal "confirms the American public's worst suspicions of how Congress operates".
The next thousand or more years brought Norman French, centuries of reliance on Latin which produced thousands of loan words, the influence of the crusades, voyages of discovery, global colonisation and more as the language passed through the Middle English of Chaucer and the early modern English of Shakespeare.
Last June, Eugene Goostman, a computer programme pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy for whom English was a second language, "passed" the Turing test – though with many qualifications – by convincing 10 of 30 judges from the Royal Society that it was human.
Biofuel advocates were heartened that the bill does not include language, passed by the House that would have barred the Pentagon from buying biofuels.
(The report language runs to another 1233 pages and is available (pdf).) The antipornography language passed unanimously, and members also overwhelmingly supported an existing prohibition on federal funds going to any university that prohibits military recruiters on campus.
As amended by the Committee of Eleven, this language passed the House.
It's far from certain that the new bill will gain enough support from Republicans to pass and replace the language passed in December.
Among the issues the president's Office of Management and Budget singled out were some of the controversial military detainee provisions, although it did not take issue with language passed in last year's bill that lets the military hold American civilians without trial.
If the Senate abortion language passes it will further mark off abortion as a morally dubious medical practice that no American should have to be implicated in who does not choose to be.
In the House, Smith had been planning to hold a committee vote on SOPA in February, which lobbyists on Capitol Hill expected to closely mirror whatever legislative language passed the Senate.
