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...practice test questions, and users are able to customize their sessions to fit a certain time frame. But INeedAPencil.com also adds special features to the typical program. These include a visual progress chart that keeps track of completed lessons, a score projector that calculates the actual expected test score based on aggregate performance, and even a “confidence calibrator” that allows users to indicate the level of confidence in their answers. “It hones your ability to decide whether to risk answering a question or not,” says Shah.Although the Web site...
...That's the problem. The party's ideas - about economic issues, social issues and just about everything else - are not popular ideas. They are extremely conservative ideas tarred by association with the extremely unpopular George W. Bush, who helped downsize the party to its extremely conservative base. A hard-right agenda of slashing taxes for the investor class, protecting marriage from gays, blocking universal health insurance and extolling the glories of waterboarding produces terrific ratings for Rush Limbaugh, but it's not a majority agenda. The party's new, Hooverish focus on austerity on the brink of another depression does...
...weeks as opponents of Saakashvili's handling of last year's confrontation with Moscow and the deepening economic crisis have taken to the streets, holding mass demonstrations and blocking roads in the capital. And it was those demonstrations that appear to have prompted the Mukhrovani soldiers' rebellion, at a base where soldiers had previously mutinied over pay and conditions in 2001 and 2004. "One cannot calmly watch the collapse of the country and watch the continuing political confrontation. But there won't be any aggressive action from our tank unit. We are in our barracks, and we are not going...
Georgia's government has called Tuesday's mutiny at a military base near Tbilisi part of a coup attempt orchestrated by Russia, but opponents of beleaguered President Mikheil Saakashvili accuse him of using the incident to crack down on mounting domestic opposition. Soldiers in tanks and armored personnel carriers raced to the base in Mukhrovani, 20 miles from the capital, to confront mutinous soldiers, about 500 of whom were arrested after the standoff ended peacefully...
...expulsion from NATO headquarters of two Russian diplomats implicated in a spying scandal uncovered in Estonia last week. And NATO's plans to go ahead with a long-planned monthlong "crisis response" drill involving about 1,000 soldiers from more than 12 NATO member states at another military base near Tbilisi starting Wednesday have exacerbated tensions...