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...similar "equating" error in the November GMATs had only a mild effect on the business school admissions process for the fall of 1980. In late November, ETS notified business schools of the error--a miscalculation of about ten points on an 800 scale--and by January had sent corrected scores to the test-takers as well as the schools. Amy Meyer, associate director of admissions to Harvard Business School's masters program, says that because the error was so small, and because the Business School received prompt notification about it, the effect on admissions was minimal. "There was a group...
Steven Brill, a graduate of Yale Law school and a regular columnist on the law with Esquire Fortnightly, said he thought the change in LSATs had its greatest effect on law schools with rolling admissions. "Rolling admissions law schools take people at the top of the curve first, which means that they take the guy with the 800s first. If a guy who took the test in July gets placed in a holding file with a 720 score, and the law school meanwhile accepts people with higher scores from the October LSATs, the 720s guy may get lost...
Despite neurosurgeons' best efforts to separate out the brain's destructive from its constructive centers, it appears likely that effective, directed psychosurgical techniques, even assuming they are to be desired, will remain elusive for a long time to come. The aggressive, angry functions of the brain are too finely interconnected with other functions, like the human will, perhaps even creativity. In the fantastically complex circuitry of the brain, hard science may have reached the limit of its power to identify cause and effect. To go beyond the limit may be to court disaster. Restraint would seem to be in order...
...insipid theme--attempt to evoke a feeling of free-floating nostalgia. This final scene adds an untoward note of solemnity to the affair; Scorsese would have been better off closing with the final number of the concert, the full-company rendition of "I Shall Be Released." The desired arty effect appears both pretentious and rather silly. In another inexplicable scene, The Band plays a pretty song with EmmyLou Harris, but it is not part of the Winterland concert. Rather, it takes place in a studio, attended only by the film crew and sound technicians. For some unknown reason this nice...
...travel more than halfway around the sun, flying outside Earth's orbit for the first three months, then crossing inside Earth's orbit for the last four months of a circuitous, 480 million-km (300 million mile) journey to Venus. This flight path will lessen the accelerating effect on Pioneer of the sun's gravity. As a result, the ship will make its approach to the planet at a lower speed than if it had taken a more direct route across space. Thus a smaller retrorocket will be needed to slow Pioneer down to the speed necessary...