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According to Gregory E. Atkinson, the department administrator of the FAS registrar’s office, the change to the start of the academic year was made so that Rosh Hashanah would not occur during the first several days of the term. This year the holiday starts at sundown on Sept. 17 and ends at sundown on Sept...
...pound. Inspired, he vows to win the next contest. The prize? A week in a dirty car trunk RESHMILA SHAKYA Four-year-old girl is named Nepal's virgin goddess?gets a third eye, a chariot and is revered by thousands. What, no decoder ring? Losers ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi? VLAD DRACUL PRINCE KRETZULESCO...
...lowest levels of radiated power generated 24/7. Metricom's website states that "reports are inconclusive that wireless radio frequencies pose significant health risks to users." Moreover, Metricom's radios operate in two license-free frequency bands. That means, according to Howard Epstein, head of Consolidated Spectrum Services in Atkinson, N.H., that once the boxes are up, "neither the government nor the company is required to go to street corners and audit the invisible electromagnetic field they're emitting...
...answer is that there wasn't really any inconsistency between Atkinson's speech and Bush's, even though one man wants to abolish tests and the other wants to institute them, because the underlying idea is the same: to use tests as a tool to encourage students to master a set body of material in school...
...Atkinson was addressing a situation that Conant and Chauncey didn't imagine. The SAT, now with millions of takers a year, has become a national fetish. A large portion of the high school student and parent population believes it is the main determinant of admission to a selective college, which in turn is the main determinant of one's eventual socioeconomic status (both propositions that the test's makers heatedly deny). High school students and their parents also believe that scores on the all important test can be raised by spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on courses that teach...