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...answer these questions, you have to understand both how the SAT rose to prominence and how it has fallen into turmoil. Appropriately, the story begins in California. In the two decades after World War II, the College Board struggled to build the reputation of the SAT, which was first used experimentally in 1926. The board desperately wanted the University of California, then the biggest university in the nation, to fully adopt the test. In 1962, as Nicholas Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided...
...According to researchers at the University of Colorado and Columbia University, the results of a daring procedure designed to ameliorate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease have fallen well short of expectations. While some of the human test subjects did experience a brief respite from the tremors and loss of balance associated with Parkinson's, a progressive neurological disease, most were unaffected or adversely affected by the experimental procedure...
...dreary Boston weather, have I got a deal for you. Picture an unlimited stay peacefully bobbing in the animation-suspending -200 C liquid nitrogen tanks of the Cryonics Institute for less than your parents spend on one year of Harvard tuition. That's right, the price of immortality has fallen to the paltry one-time fee of $28,000. Given this one-time capital commitment, and the wonders of compounded interest, members of the Cryonics Institute will painstakingly tend to your body until the as-yet-undetermined time when technological and medical advancements allow your consciousness to be restored...
...smile for everyone. After the heist of the White House gifts, after the shady pardon of Marc Rich and the latest brother-act pardons of the Clinton Going-Out-of-Business sale--long after Monica--he emerges on 125th Street, larger even than himself. He is the fallen preacher, the three-card-monte dealer, and the best of all time. And he is going to bless and disappoint and fool us again. But what the hell...
...Gillette stock, according to IOMA. That weighting crushed the company's typical 401(k) account as Gillette shares plunged 11% in the past 12 months and 36% in the past three years. The story is similar at Campbell Soup, where the stock, though up in the past year, has fallen 43% over three years. Other plans that have taken it in the chops include Procter & Gamble's, Norfolk Southern's and Cooper Tire's. In each of these cases, employer stock accounts for more than half of the plan's assets...