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...Higher Standards, a public-interest group specializing in the issue of the MCAS, points to a piece of information she says many worried parents and teachers may not know: students who do not pass the test in the 10th grade can retake the test in the 11th and 12th grades...
...rest of his team, as the Crimsontrounced the Volunteers, sending the 12th-rankedsquad home with a decisive 6-1 loss...
Uncovering the discs' multimedia treasures is the most fun. Brief movies on historic sites in Africa tell of the medieval trading city Timbuktu (in what is now Mali) and the underground churches hewn from volcanic rock in Ethiopia's 12th century Christian empire Lalibela. Choice video clips, such as those of the Harlem Globetrotters' comic basketball team and singer Bessie Smith, reveal what words could only suggest...
...they may be Christians too, don't know or care whether the chaos they foresee is any part of God's plan. They are just sure something bad is coming. One of the best known is Ed Yourdon, a computer theorist whose book Time Bomb 2000 is in its 12th printing. Yourdon and his wife are moving from Manhattan to an adobe house near Taos, N.M., that has solar panels and soon a windmill to provide power. "There are so many things that can go wrong in Manhattan," he says. "[In Taos] I can control my environment." Near Boulder, Colo...
Heroin use is up among teens--up the nose. A study published this month concludes that 2% of 12th-graders have tried the drug, double the percentage who had in 1990. Apparently most are snorting it in the mistaken belief that inhaling it is less addictive than injecting it. Plus, heroin is cheap: average price has dropped two-thirds in this decade...