Word: manias
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...teen culture in most suburbs. Even the College Board sells its own test-prep material. The Princeton Review's $799-to-$899 SAT classes typically meet weekly for six weeks, and students are expected to practice analogies and memorize vocabulary at home. "There has been a kind of testing mania that's hit us at all levels," says Sylvia Manning, a chancellor of the University of Illinois. It begins as early as middle school, when kids prepare for the Preliminary SAT, whose results are used by some colleges to identify potential matriculants when they are only in 10th grade...
...teen culture in most suburbs. Even the College Board sells its own test-prep material. The Princeton Review's $799-to-$899 SAT classes typically meet weekly for six weeks, and students are expected to practice analogies and memorize vocabulary at home. "There has been a kind of testing mania that's hit us at all levels," says Sylvia Manning, a chancellor of the University of Illinois. It begins as early as middle school, when kids prepare for the Preliminary SAT, whose results are used by some colleges to identify potential matriculants when they are only in 10th grade...
...Europe's turn to run the world? The prevailing mood at this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos was that the U.S., once the home of irrational exuberance and dotcom mania, is just so 20th century. Yet the five members of TIME's Board of Economists, which convened in the Swiss ski resort, were less than unanimous. No one disputed that the U.S. economy is slowing and could even grind toward a recession, though most agreed that a recovery would come by late this year. The hottest debate was over Europe's ability to isolate itself from...
...other pioneers are sure to push the envelope still further. After all, South Korea is a country that does nothing by half measures. Competitive and hyperkinetic, Koreans are deploying a typical energy and creativity to the Web that meshes nicely with the ethos of the Internet. Though Web mania seems a little over the top at times--does the world need $300 identity rings?--the ideas churning out of South Korea's Internet "lab" could one day make the rest of the world cough up real money for the privilege of joining in its cybertech games...
...have come to expect this "Chicken Little" behavior from typical doomsday prophets like the self-important Bob Costas, but lately even more rational commentators--including writers for this very sports page--have been sucked in by the mania...