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Among other things, the evidence indicates that the student who stays up all night cramming for an exam is making a mistake. Says Pearlman: "You introduce a lot of facts that you really can't learn, because staying awake prevents it. The next day you won't be able to remember any of it, and you certainly will not be able to use any of it in the future -it is not part of you." A group of researchers at the University of Ottawa showed the same role of sleep in integrating recently learned material into long-term...
...incorrigible petit bourgeois, pinching every franc, lived within Celine. At 14 he dropped out of school and worked at a silk shop and as an errand boy. In the evenings, eyes "burning with lack of sleep," as he recalled, he studied on his own, managing to pass the difficult exam for a baccalaureat degree...
...gofer" (gofer coffee, gofer a newspaper, gofer the car). Raised on a farm in Vienna (pronounced Vy-anna), Ga., 35 miles east of Plains, Joseph Lester Powell Jr. entered the Air Force Academy in 1961-and was expelled three years later for cheating on a history exam...
...Annals of Internal Medicine, many of whose physician subscribers derive considerable income from checkups, recently published a critical diagnosis of the routine examination. Among other things, it suggested that the periodic exam may be just one more instance of "a tendency of the health professions to oversell prevention ... and to overvalue the benefit of their care to patients." Acting on the advice of medical consultants, the Chicago board of education is scrapping annual chest X rays for all employees. Even leaders of the American Medical Association have joined the doubters. A.M.A. President-elect Dr. John Budd, a Cleveland general practitioner...
When instructors in the course decided after the theft to drop S-1's self-paced format--adding a midterm and increasing the final exam's impact on S-1's grades--they also extended the deadline for with-drawing from the course to last Tuesday...