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...feed the demand, the College Board, the New York City--based company best known for administering the SAT, keeps creating new AP courses and exams. Back in 1955, when AP was introduced, there were 11 courses. By 1990 there were 29. Today there are 34, ranging from Music Theory to Computer Science. Next fall there will be three more: Italian, Russian and Chinese. It's a booming business for the nonprofit College Board, which sells teaching guides and seminars to instructors, study guides and practice exams to students, and charges $82 for an AP exam. (Much of this covers...
...truck drivers have never been in greater demand. There are 40,000 positions available today, by some estimates--a sign, perhaps, of a coming surge in the economy. Often the transportation industry is a leading indicator for other businesses, from manufacturing to retail. So TIME senior writer DANIEL KADLEC sat down with Bill Zollars, chairman and CEO of Yellow Roadway, the nation's biggest trucking firm, to discuss driver shortages--and what kind of demand he is seeing across the country...
ZOLLARS First of all, rail service generally has deteriorated, and as demand has picked up for all transportation services, it has forced even more onto the roads. So capacity is getting tight. Fuel costs have gone up, and so have insurance costs. But the law of supply and demand works pretty well. We're able to charge more. Where possible, our customers are passing through those costs. So the consumer ends up paying more...
...illegal abortion clinic and a stem cell line. Sure, I know nothing about biology, but if Timothy McVeigh can destroy a federal building I’m sure I can work out a way of inducing an abortion and harvesting some stem cells. There’s plenty of demand here—no doubt I wouldn’t have to go far to sell them in the biology labs—and with kids being told about abstinence and not condoms, I’m sure there’ll be plenty of handiwork...
...changed the time in response to the popular demand that the screening not conflict with...‘The O.C.,’ to which many of you are apparently addicted,” course TF Namwali Serpell wrote in an e-mail to the class yesterday...