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...story also predicted that the addition of the writing section would damage the SAT?s reliability. Reliability is a measure of how similar a test?s results are from one sitting to the next. Theoretically, if a test had a standard error of measurement of 0 points, you would score exactly the same each time you took it. But no test is that good. The pre-2005 SAT had a standard error of measurement of about 30 points for each section. In other words, if you got a 500 on the math section, your ?true? score was anywhere between...
...very name Monaco carries about it the whiff of tuxedos, fast boats and ruinous expense - and all three will be in evidence at the Monaco Yacht Show,[an error occurred while processing this directive] monacoyachtshow.org, to be held in the principality from Sept...
...Waiheke vintage, its proponents can be excused. After all, there aren't too many fledgling wine districts with products comparable to the legendary French vintage in terms of balance, intensity and depth - not after a history of just 23 years of grape growing. Then again, few[an error occurred while processing this directive] places have a terroir and microclimate like Waiheke. An island 35-minutes from Auckland by ferry, Waiheke is home to vineyards situated on clay soil mixed with volcanic rock, giving grapes a wonderful consistency (and particularly smooth tannins to Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot). Due to its position...
...crams some 65,000 guests a month into its hot-spring baths, pools, saunas, massage rooms and restaurants. In Seoul, the popular Sports Club Seoul Leisure, tel: (82-2) 404 7000, uses an extraordinary range of facilities as its lure: its 10 floors feature themed saunas,[an error occurred while processing this directive] oxygen rooms, a golf practice range, a movie theater and a karaoke room. In Shenzhen, the gaudy Queen Spa (86-755) 8225 3888 sprawls over 40,000 sq m and includes overnight sleeping capsules, more than 500 massage rooms, and a leisure area with Internet access, billiards...
...surfeited these days with boutique hotels. For many years, the Thai capital was bereft of the welcome alternative these fashionable little properties provide to the big chain hotels or the flophouses of Khao San Road - and it's still anyone's guess why so many have opened now.[an error occurred while processing this directive] Perhaps the adoption of Thai style in so many boutique hotels and spas in the West has encouraged local operators to welcome long-haul visitors with the same commercially successful combination of elegantly minimalist furnishings and ethnic accents. Or maybe there's a growing realization...