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Today Atkinson and Caperton have launched another great social experiment with the SAT. This time, the idea is that the test's rigorous new curricular demands will lift all boats--that all schools will improve because they want their students to do well on the test. Schools have long tried to prepare kids for the SAT, but education experts scorned the practice of openly teaching to the test. Now it's the mission of the College Board that every school should teach to the SAT. "I would say that the most important aspect of this test is sending a real...
...endemic recession, Asian economic might is still awe inspiring when you think about what these countries were like 40 or 50 years ago. They were starving now there's cell phones everywhere. There?s something quietly magnificent about so much economic might sitting down at a table together to lift everyone?s collective standard of living. Sure, it?s goofy when thousands of journalists and businessmen and do-good non governmental organizations swarm on a news event where the greatest tension is what the leaders will wear. (Each year at APEC the leaders pose for a group photo, donning...
...Church Divided U.K. Two days of crisis meetings in London between 37 Anglican primates failed to lift the threat of a schism in the worldwide church over the issue of homosexuality. In his attempts to keep the 70 million-strong Communion together, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams put aside his own personal views that same-sex partnerships, if stable and faithful, could be legitimate in God's eyes. His efforts were successful enough to secure a unanimous statement from deeply divided liberal and conservative primates. It warned that "the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy...
...they voted for it only to maintain Council unity - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was now more optimistic about pledges at this week's donor conference in Madrid. But France, Germany and Russia said they'd give no more. MEANWHILE IN FIJI ... Belated Apology Hoping to lift a suspected curse, inhabitants of the remote mountain village of Navatusila have promised to apologize to descendants of a British Christian missionary whom their forefathers ate 136 years ago. According to village lore, their ancestors devoured all of the Rev. Thomas Baker except his leather boots, which, despite prolonged cooking...
...love the training relationship; I love that we go lift weights together and cheer each other on,” Lambert says. “I love that we’re big women and proud of it and proud that we’re strong and we love to eat. I think that the way that we relate to our bodies is really healthy...