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...mystery is why employers are so addicted to these pre-employment tests. Drug tests seldom detect anything but the most innocuous of illegal drugs, usually marijuana; and personality tests only measure some combination of literacy and hypocrisy, not your ability to get the job done. Maybe the real function of the tests is not to convey information to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information being conveyed is, You will have no secrets from us. We don't just want your time and your effort, we want your entire self...
...first quarter), but I finally started making headway with the machine at my seat. You can follow the game (why watch the real thing when you can see it on a tiny screen!), access player stats and pull up background news and video. The coolest application is a function that lets you watch the game from any of 12 angles - you decide which one. Moreover, you can call up instant replays at any time, from any of those 12 vantage points...
...longer merely watch TV; I wrestle with it. Sure, I could turn off the TiVo's suggestions feature. But I'd feel like I was shirking my critical responsibility to embrace the medium's future. Besides programming TiVo to record my favorite shows, I also indulge in a special function that lets me rate programs with its "thumbs-up" and "thumbs-down" buttons, so that it learns to guess my tastes better...
...Much depends on the state of relations with Israeli when the succession takes place. If the situation is calm and settled by the time Arafat dies, Palestinian national institutions will continue to function. But if it had to happen in the current situation of tension and military confrontation, there would be the potential for a breakup of Palestinian national institutions and a very unpredictable situation...
...California, Nevada and Maine are debating similar moves. Such grassroots enthusiasm carries little weight with drug warriors, who dispute the scientific data and argue that marijuana leads to hard narcotics. In an interview with TIME last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft praised the Supreme Court decision. "We can't function well as a country if each state makes its own rules about what's available health-care-wise," he argued. "If Congress wants to exempt various people from the laws of this country, it's their duty...