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There was mild optimism two years ago, when scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test crept up a notch. Now the optimism has risen to a higher pitch: SAT averages for last June's crop of high school seniors made their largest combined gain since 1963. That was the year the scores began a decline lasting nearly two decades. Out of a possible 800, math results climbed by 3 points, to 471; verbal averages were up by 1, to 426. Says George Hanford, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the test: "We seem to have turned...
...nest. Let's give them some peace." He idled the engine down while the loons swam around a point and out of sight. Just after the young are hatched, loons move operations from the nest to a brooding area. With the family removed, Fair and Minor crept slowly into the cove to inspect the floating nest, a nest the preservation committee had set out in the spring. It is more raft than nest, actually about 6 ft. square, framed with cedar logs, filled with sod and sedge. Loons nest naturally on land, where raccoons feast on loon eggs. Preservation...
...Middle East. Following the plane to Curaçao was a team of commandos from Venezuela. During the 17 hours the plane sat on the runway, while passengers sweltered inside, a team of anti-hijack specialists from the U.S. arrived. In the dark hours of Tuesday morning, a commando crept under the plane and deflated one of its tires; the other three tires were then shot out, immobilizing the aircraft...
NEARLY EVERY young child has hidden in doorways, crept downstairs, and lain awake in bed at night, listening to the hushed grownup voices he is not meant to hear. These glimpses into the adult world often give the child far greater insight than his parents realize. In the opening scenes of an enchanting new Australian film, Careful He Might Hear You, a wide-eyed six-year-old boy lies awake as his anxious parents discuss his fate and admonish each other for speaking too loudly, afraid they will let him hear too much. This preoccupation with sheltering the boy from...
...withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred debris and fallen beams, the area resembled nothing so much as a bombed-out shell. But the destruction had been limited. Five-sixths of the church, including a huge...