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...Many states are already tinkering with the Texas formula. In addition to offering kids multiple tries to pass high-stakes tests, some states weigh the exams alongside other measures of student achievement. In Vermont, students are assessed and promoted on the basis of a portfolio of work that includes a state test, classwork and teacher evaluations...
Gridlock, in fact, is one candidate investors should vote for. The Dow has fared best when one party has controlled the White House and the other has controlled Congress, the optimum formula being a Democratic President and a Republican-controlled Congress. That combo has produced Dow gains, excluding dividends, of 10.7% a year. The hands-down loser: Republicans with a mandate. When the g.o.p. has run both branches, the Dow has limped at less than 1% a year...
...Creme de la Mer was invented by Max Huber in the 1960s to treat his own rocket-fuel burns. According to Estee Lauder, which owns the product, his formula consisted of fermenting a seaweed broth to the prerecorded gurglings of previous batches. Lauder researchers don't know why the sounds make a difference, but without them, they contend, the cream loses its potency...
Baker gave foul-mouthed Granny a makeover, endowing her with more wrinkles and elongated but bouncy breasts. He also created an 8-ft.-tall hamster made monstrous by a bad batch of youth formula. Special-effects supervisor Jon Farhat put the Klumps together onscreen through digital magic--the same magic that enables Baker's giant hamster to attack a group of scientists with cannonball-size pellets...
...Austrian beverage Red Bull stands out in an oversaturated market by leading a double life: energy drink by day, mixer by night. Red Bull, which retails for $1.99 a can, sponsors such varied sporting events as street luge and Formula One racing, but its core constituency is fast becoming clubgoers, not athletes. The sugary yellowish brew, first introduced in California in 1997 and now available in more than 20 states, has hit the club circuit at such hip spots as Sky Bar in Los Angeles and Twilo in New York City. Leonardo DiCaprio served Red Bull at his millennium bash...