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Patton's high scores on Saturday qualified him for the NCAA Zone diving meet on both boards. The top two divers from that meet will earn a spot at NCAAs in April...
Here's how beenz work. First, you open a free account with Beenz.com a New York City-based outfit that's been in business since 1998. You then earn beenz by visiting certain websites that give beenz away as a means of rewarding customer loyalty, in exchange for personal information or as a reward to surfers for just showing up. Hence the name--"You get something just for having 'been' there," explains Beenz.com chairman and CEO Philip Letts. Among the sites that offer this virtual token of their esteem are Excite UK, Dash, FortuneCity and the Motley Fool. Then, once...
Last year Bush pushed for a controversial program to end social promotion, the practice of passing students who aren't academically qualified. His initiative would have required third-graders to pass a single standardized reading test in order to earn a ticket to fourth grade. That bothered Sadler, whose support Bush needed. At a meeting last year, Bush challenged him: "Sadler, you gonna pass my social-promotion bill?" Sadler replied, "Nah, I don't like it." "What's the problem?" Bush asked. Sadler told him that holding back students because they failed a single test wasn't fair...
...your future spouse about finances. How much do you earn (and save) a year? How much do you owe? What are your financial goals and retirement plans? Who do you think should handle the money? How much money do you expect me to make? Will one of us be the breadwinner? Couples should ask each other about relationships, especially attitudes toward previous lovers or spouses. (A future spouse who hates all the exes should raise red flags.) Ask about attitudes toward friendship, love and fidelity. (Note: "You complete me" isn't an answer.) Religion, sex and politics should be similarly...
...shirts, for the first time the average man became capable of feeding and dressing himself. Sensing their increasing dispensability on the home front, and tired of picking up dropped socks, women rushed into the work force. They haven't achieved full economic independence by any means (women still earn only 75% of what men do), but more and more of them are realizing that ancient female dream--a room, or better yet, a condo of their...