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...informal study of the SAT's role in its admissions. It showed that the scores bore little relation to how well the students performed once they were on campus. A second analysis found that the SAT accounted at most for just 10 percent of each admissions decision. Says Jane Brown, the school's vice president for enrollment and college relations: "We concluded that the SAT was just a blunt instrument which doesn't help us cut to the core of who a student...
...Mount Holyoke has high hopes that its future applicants will devote the hours they once spent fretting over word analogies to worthier pursuits like community service or starring in school plays. Best of all, says Jane Brown, "we also think we'll see high-scoring students who don't submit scores simply on principle." Lis Bernhardt, a senior at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Conn., was concerned more with pragmatism than principle. She spent months "consumed" by the SATs, investing countless hours - and more than $1,000 - in tutoring to lift her scores. Then she toured Mount Holyoke, loved...
Other Crimson swimmers who turned in all-star performances include sophomore Jane Humphries in the 200-yard I.M. (8th, 2:06.85, 2:05.41 prelim), junior Janna McDougall in the 100-yard freestyle (8th, 52., 51.29 prelim) and 100-yard backstroke (5th, 57.36, 57.10 prelim), and freshman Katie Wilbur in the 400-yard I.M. (5th, 4:28.14, 4:27.80 prelim...
...more such peddlers proliferate, the more politicians will be tempted to invoke prohibitions. Four U.S. states?California, Louisiana, Michigan and Rhode Island?have already banned human cloning, and soon Texas may become the fifth. Republican state senator Jane Nelson has introduced a bill in Austin that would impose a fine of as much as $1 million for researchers who use cloning technology to initiate pregnancy in humans. The proposed Texas law would permit embryonic-stem-cell research, but bills proposed in other states were so broadly written that they could have stopped those activities...
LEAP AHEAD Dick and Jane may have taught millions of us how to read, but we never heard them talk. Imagination Desk, from LeapFrog's Fall 2001 line of educational toys, is a touch-sensitive coloring book that chatters away, guiding kids through reading and writing lessons. The company's game plan is to offer free printable pages (with sound effects) on the Web so Mom and Dad won't start to panic as their little reader nears the letter...