Word: iowa
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This spring, Walker, 15, the oldest of eight children, got another chance. But she failed again, by four-tenths of a point, on the Iowa test's reading section. She is headed to summer school for one final shot at getting into high school in the fall. If she doesn't make it, she will go to one of the city's "transition centers"--an educational way station for kids who haven't qualified for high school but are too old to remain in a regular eighth-grade classroom...
...year before the new approach, less than 2% of students were forced to repeat a grade; last year close to 15% of third-, sixth- and eighth-graders were retained. The city spent $24 million last year on summer programs designed to give kids one last chance to pass the Iowa test before September. It invested $10 million in hiring new teachers to tutor retained students. If test scores are the measure, the stricter policy is working. Math and reading results in the elementary and high school grades are at their highest level in a decade...
Dream on. In a double-blind placebo-controlled trial of 20 men, published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from Iowa State University found that taking andro did nothing for testosterone levels. Instead, it boosted the amount of estrogen-like compounds in the blood and decreased levels of HDL, or "good" cholesterol, by 12%. Moreover, andro did not help test subjects build muscle mass at all. Scientists want to do more research to be sure, but right now it looks as though all that androstenedione consumed by would-be sluggers after McGwire broke the home...
...given a medal by his Nazi hosts and later ignored public appeals to repudiate and return it. (He had in fact sent it to a museum, as he did other awards he received throughout his life.) Finally, and disastrously, my father made a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1941, identifying as the three groups unwisely advocating U.S. entry into the war "the British, the Roosevelt Administration and the Jews...
...World War II term that two generations later continues to conjure up the warmest and proudest memories of a noble war that pitted pure good against pure evil--and good triumphed. The victors in that war were the American G.I.s, the Willies and Joes, the farmer from Iowa and the steelworker from Pittsburgh who stepped off a landing craft into the hell of Omaha Beach. The G.I. was the wisecracking kid Marine from Brooklyn who clawed his way up a deadly hill on a Pacific island. He was a black fighter pilot escorting white bomber pilots over Italy and Germany...