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That experience in no way resembled the Olympics week of Greene and Jones. These two Americans were about to embark on high-profile, high-stakes, big-money quests, and they each needed a bubble. They needed their own versions of what the great British miler Seb Coe called "a cocoon of concentration...
...That experience in no way resembled the Olympics week of Greene and Jones. These two Americans were about to embark on high-profile, high-stakes, big-money quests, and they each needed a bubble. They needed their own versions of what the great British miler Seb Coe called "a cocoon of concentration...
...school reforms go, standardized exams certainly have staying power. But the stakes are a good deal higher on the tests of today. As kids head back to class, they'll embark on what some educators have dubbed the Year of the Test, sitting for state exams that determine everything from high school graduation to school-funding bonuses. Not to mention whether your kindergartner will have nap time (schools in Mobile, Ala., have grabbed that time for test prep) and where you'll buy your next home (real estate agents in Arizona and Virginia now tout high scores in school districts...
...school reforms go, standardized exams certainly have staying power. But the stakes are a good deal higher on the tests of today. As kids head back to class, they'll embark on what some educators have dubbed the Year of the Test, sitting for state exams that determine everything from high school graduation to school-funding bonuses. Not to mention whether your kindergartner will have nap time (schools in Mobile, Ala., have grabbed that time for test prep), and where you'll buy your next home (real estate agents in Arizona and Virginia now tout high scores in school districts...
...best of our knowledge, there are only three collegiate a cappella groups in the country that regularly embark on world tours. As evidence supporting the notion that simply being enrolled at "Harvard" so greatly assists us in our travels, it should not be surprising that two of these groups are the Dins and the Kroks and the third, the Whiffenpoofs from our second-rate rival in New Haven...