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...longtime fan of both Dale Earnhardt and NASCAR, I was confused by Cathy H. Tran's column in last Wednesday's sports section (Sports, "When Will Nascar Learn?," Feb. 21). The restrictor plates that Tran alludes to are already used on superspeedways, and they actually increase the threat of accident by bunching cars tightly together. The safety improvements she suggests, such as soft-wall technology or the Hans device, are impractical for stock car racing; stock cars are heavier and require more in-cockpit freedom of movement than Formula One cars...
...Dale Earnhardt, the race was never over. Back when he was winning everything in sight--11 races one year, nine in another--he would come home some nights mad as hell about something that somebody had done to him on the track. Squeezed him, bumped him, as if he would never do such things himself. And this was after a victory...
...DIED. DALE EARNHARDT, 49, America's most famous stock car racing champion and a Southern cultural icon, after crashing in the last lap of the Daytona 500 race; in Daytona Beach, Florida. Racing runs in the Earnhardt family?Earnhardt's father was a driver, as is his son, Dale Jr., who finished second in the Daytona 500. In a 26-year career, he won 76 races and seven national championships, earning more than $41 million...
...Bial's exam, the Bial-Dale College Adaptability Index, has been nicknamed the Lego Test for a 10-min. portion that asks small groups of students to reproduce a relatively complicated Lego robot. One at a time, students are allowed to go and look at the structure, which is placed in another room, but they can't take notes. In another tested activity, students lead a group discussion on a topic drawn from an envelope. In both cases, observers are watching to see who takes initiative, who collaborates well and who is persistent...
...dean of admissions at 1,400-pupil Grinnell College in Iowa, is hoping a test like Bial's will help identify strong minority candidates the college might miss in its traditional SAT- and-ACT-based selection process. This year Grinnell accepted two minority students who participated in the Bial-Dale test...