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...Credit cards, too, are still available for customers with credit scores in the 600s and below. First Premier Bank used to charge customers with poor credit as much as $250 in fees to open a credit card that had a $300 limit. But following the recent passage of new rules for card issuers, which among other things caps the annual fees companies can charge to 25% of the credit limit, Premier has retooled its offering. It now charges a $45 processing fee before customers open a card. It then charges a separate $75 annual fee, which is exactly...
...long time, says the Rev. Joseph Lienhard, an expert in the early church at New York City's Fordham University, "Joseph was not a popular saint." That's an understatement. His name did not pop up on any Western saints lists until 1000. The Koran, which dates from the 600s, dedicates a chapter to Mary but omits Joseph. According to Sandra Miesel, a Catholic journalist with a specialty in medieval history, a list of 30,000 Florentine men of the officeholding class before 1530 contained precisely one "Giuseppe...
...writing section will be even less reliable: field trials of the New SAT estimate a standard error of measurement of 41 points. That means a kid who gets a 670 may "really" be in the elite reaches of the 700s--or in the more average environs of the low 600s. There are two reasons for the writing test's imprecision: first, the multiple-choice component of the test will be just 20 to 30 minutes, compared with 70 minutes each for math and reading. Less time means fewer questions, and it's harder to wring out measurement error with...
Airlines have bought 176 of the consortium's A310 wide bodies ($59 million; 218 passengers) since 1983, and 86 of the larger, twin-engine A300-600s ($68 million; 267 passengers). The hottest-selling Airbus jet is the medium-range A320, the first commercial airliner in which the cockpit is connected to flaps and rudders strictly by computer rather than by hydraulic or mechanical means. More than 400 of the planes have been ordered. (The crash of an Air France A320 during a demonstration flight last June was not the result of any flaw in the aircraft, investigators concluded...
Rogers and his committee begin with 25 applicants from a high-pressure high school in a prosperous Midwestern suburb. They rapidly reject a dozen students with mediocre grades and below-550 board scores, then slow down. The prospects begin to look alike: board scores in the 600s, class rank in the top fifth. Many applicants from competitive schools realize this and mail in poems, photo albums, homemade cookies, anything to stand out. One student has sent an 8-by-10 glossy of himself water-skiing at a 30° angle, spray flying, muscles rippling. Others have mailed in serious portfolios...