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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard freshman and his high school classmate are receiving nationwide attention for a scheme they devised to demonstrate how easy it is to cheat on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Freshman Exposes SAT Flaws | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...article written for the March issue of Penthouse magazine, David L. Weller '92 and fellow Stuyvesant High School graduate Larry Schultzargue that lax security measures allow impostors to take the SAT and substitute their scores for others. The SAT is the largest college preparatory entrance examination in the country, given to more than 2 million students each year...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Freshman Exposes SAT Flaws | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

Weller and Schultz also bypassed a Stuyvesant High School test site for another local site in order not to be recognized...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Freshman Exposes SAT Flaws | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

Weller suggested that ETS could improve security by requiring that students take the SAT at their own high schools...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Freshman Exposes SAT Flaws | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...animals. Some locals were milking their cows when they heard the roar of the quake just after 5 a.m., and were able to escape the approaching mudslides. The small village of Sharora was not so lucky. The town was razed by a wall of mud up to 45 ft. high. With no hope of finding survivors, local officials decided to leave the village entombed. The estimated death toll of the Tadzhikistan quake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Entombed In Mud | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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