> Is this a fact, or just hype? It's hard to tell just by listening to the 
> news. (If you believed them, bird flu is a deadly world-wide pandemic 
> which is killing everything in sight...)

Or that HIV had just been cured because 51 got HIV who took the vaccine 
compared to 74 otherwise.

Anyway, I'm sure you can actually look up the real GCSE pass rates rather 
than simply reading the text of news reports.  The bbc site has a graph on 
this page:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4202327.stm

>> When something stupid like 40% gets an A grade
>
> It's that high??

I was just making that bit up, after checking it's actually 20%.

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