Word: exam
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Drawing on feminist insights, the best of the new clinics seek to provide total basic care. They are a kind of one-stop body shop where women can receive a gynecological exam or mammogram; treatment for premenstrual syndrome or osteoporosis; advice on nutrition, weight loss and cosmetic surgery; even counseling for psychological problems. "We have head-to-toe health care," exults Penny Wise Budoff, a family practitioner (and the best-selling author of No More Hot Flashes and Other Good News). Her clinic in Bethpage, N.Y., a former Howard Johnson's restaurant painted lilac with yellow columns, has a staff...
...STILL wonder: Why do we have to go through with it at all? According to the Core Curriculum pamphlet, the purpose of the computer exam is "to teach students how to use a computer, enabling them to understand its capabilities and limitations." Does it fulfill its purpose...
Even though he was hired as a political analyst, Van Voorst, like all other new CIA officers, took a course in basic intelligence gathering. One final exam called for surreptitiously opening a series of sealed envelopes, each inside the one before, and removing a note from the last envelope before resealing the lot. "I successfully extracted my message," says Van Voorst, "but students who used steam were dismayed, because the envelopes had been treated with a purple dye that reacted to the heat...
...fall reading period, 1985. it's 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, and I'm still reading Julius Caesar and Hamlet for my Garber exam on Monday, while I haven't started studying for my Chem 10 exam on Tuesday. Help...
...those few seconds, I felt an unusual rush of completeness and connection with the rowers. I was their eyes, and I was doing the job correctly. I made it into the dock in triumph, experiencing the type of thrill that for me was usually came after a good exam or editing a story well...