Word: knee
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...fair test," says Thomas Romberg, a University of Wisconsin mathematics professor who spent six years helping develop a set of widely praised national math standards. Beverly Cole, education director for the N.A.A.C.P., which is a member of FairTest, admits she is "paranoid" about the idea. "There's a knee-jerk response on the part of minorities against national testing because we've suffered the most from them in the past...
...Lyme, Conn., got an undeserved reputation as a pesthole when the disease later named for it was first identified there in 1975. But it is unlikely that the disease really was newly hatched in that area. Decades earlier, on Long Island in New York, a pesky swelling called Montauk knee was causing trouble. In 1908 something indistinguishable from Lyme disease was described in Sweden. Ticks hitch rides not just on deer, mice, humans and other mammals, but also on birds, which helps explain why Lyme disease has been reported in 46 states. (Only Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Nebraska have reported...
...Securities in Los Angeles, prefers to look at the bigger picture. "It will be beneficial to Time Warner to have less debt," he says. "It will reduce their interest costs and the perceptions about leverage. The long-term investor will have to be patient. The stock drop is a knee-jerk reaction to an unexpected event...
Nick Sweeney, the burly Irishman with the scars on his knee and memories of a back brace etched in his brain, uncoiled at the Heptagonal Championships on May 4 in Princeton, N.J. for a stunning 189'8" toss...
...early years, however, would be marked by visits to the trainer's room, not the discus circle. After knee surgery his first year, Sweeney erupted to win his first Heps title in the spring of 1989, his sophomore year...