Word: attachement
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...Whenever you start a tax-cut feeding frenzy in Washington it's almost impossible to turn it off. A sampling of special interest cuts lawmakers are eager to attach to future tax bills...
...past few years have witnessed a boom for the testing industry. While standardized tests have been used for decades to measure students across school districts and state boundaries, only recently have schools and governments begun to attach significant consequences to the results. In many states, a high school student who passes courses and fulfills the graduation requirements may still be denied a diploma on the basis of a single standardized test. This practice places far too much weight on a few hours of a student's entire academic career. And the recent news that companies designing and grading these tests...
...their use in last fall’s campaigns to transmit falsehoods about candidates has been decried. Legitimate surveys avoid biased and vague items like the plague. Such questions not only produce meaningless results, they bias the answers to the questions that follow them by shaping the meaning respondents attach to them. And in e-mail surveys, respondents can see all the questions before answering any of them, meaning answers to preceding questions can be biased...
...entirely out of the mainstream. For years doctors measured thyroid function by testing how fast the tibial muscle jerks when the Achilles tendon is tapped. But for Goodheart, muscle testing is the diagnostic gold standard. He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone. These tears feel, he says, like "a bb under a strip of raw bacon." When "directional pressure" is applied, the bb's flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored...
...they're available to all South African AIDS patients through the public health system. Friends and colleagues have urged him to relent, because he's too important to the campaign. He almost did last year - but balked at the last minute, unable to take advantage of the privileges that attach to his middle-class position in a society where almost all AIDS sufferers are doomed by their poverty...