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...three years, Sternberg has been working on a new test to augment the SAT, one that asks students to write captions for New Yorker cartoons, dictate stories into tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever...
Another impetus for the board to explore alternative tests is the persistence of gaps in SAT scores between racial and ethnic groups. Here, too, the Rainbow Project shows some promise. On the practical-intelligence portions of the test (the part in which students persuade friends to haul the mattress), there were no differences in scores between groups. On the creative portions, the differences were considerably smaller than they are on the SAT. And in some sections, groups that traditionally fare poorly on standardized tests thrived. Native Americans did especially well on the oral part...
...fields of today's peasants are littered with imperial tombs. Many still hold impossibly valuable works of art buried centuries ago. Breaking into these tombs and stealing the national treasures they hold are illegal, of course. But the lure is too great for many, especially because one major haul, sold to a smuggler, can equal a year's farming income. "For kids here, tomb raiding is just like going to the bar," says Little Su, a Xiaoli doctor who put himself through medical school with the spoils of treasure hunts beneath the fields around his home. "If you're bored...
...billion in 2002; Boeing had $54 billion in total revenues), this year it is expected to account for less than half the company's overall sales. Boeing makes six aircraft models, but airlines these days buy only two of them--the short-range 737 and the long-haul 777. Worse yet, this will probably be the first year that European rival Airbus delivers more airplanes than Boeing. The order book doesn't look much better: Airbus has won an estimated $26 billion worth of orders this year, in contrast to Boeing's $10 billion...
...revolutionary way. Rather than send parts to the final assembly site by truck and train for piecemeal manufacturing, Boeing's contractors will build complete component systems (a fully wired wing, say) to be snapped together at final assembly. To speed the process, Boeing will build three 747s to haul the components. "Instead of huge sections of the 7E7 bobbing around the ocean for a month, we can get them to the final assembly site in a day," says Mike Bair, the head of the plane's development program. "It's far more efficient and will save...