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Preparing for exams is an accepted part of classroom life, but students at Henry P. Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford, N.J., may soon be given the sort of test that is hard to cram for. Two months ago, the local school board voted that all 479 of the youngsters at Becton must submit to urinalysis in a search for drug users. The screening is now on hold, while five students backed by the American Civil Liberties Union test the testing in court. "It's against the Bill of Rights that we're supposed to be learning about...
...films such as The big chill and The World According to Garp, and she does her best here, but it just isn't enough to salvage Maxie. Indeed, it's remarkable she doesn't fail completely in light of the lines Maxie is given. The script, which manages to cram at least five 20's cliches into every sentence, must have been hard for Close to read without either laughing or bursting into tears...
...What did you do this summer?" I try to cram down the rest of my tostada as the question sweeps along the table like a prairie fire. "Oh, I cured cancer. What about...
...shrimping industry. The immigrants, who , have come over the past decade, had fished for a living in Viet Nam. They were able to dominate the industry by working together as families. They put in twelve-hour days, subsist mainly on a diet of rice and fish, and often cram several families into a small apartment. They waste nothing. Americans throw back "rough" fish like sheepshead and mullet, but the Vietnamese live on them...
...most interesting chapters, however, detail Owen's charge that the SAT measures "primarily the ability to take E.T.S. tests." He contends that this ability can be cram-coached by methods having little to do with scholastic aptitude. As principal evidence, he offers the work of Testing Coach John Katzman, 25, whose four-year-old Princeton Review tutoring service has headquarters in New York City and branch offices in four other cities. Owen recounts that the Princeton Review and a few similar services, working from computer analysis of existing SATs, can boost students' SAT scores an average of 185 points...