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...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System: Classic Advice for Exams | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...late. Frye had been crushed by a 9-ft. slab of rock. His fellow miners took up a collection, which was matched by the mining company, and gave Frye's widow $4,000 for burial expenses. At the foot of the grave in Forest Lawn Cemetery is a marker that reads WE LOVE YOU DAD. His widow worries about her son, who can barely bring himself to talk about the loss. For now, young Michael shows little interest in the mines. The question remains: Will he have a choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...STUDENTS are a bit above this, although you might not always think so. Student organizations hold "comps" (or "punches") to weed out the unqualified. Students compete against each other for fellowships, grants, grades. A few students rip pages out of important reference books, or highlight them in black magic marker...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Sorry Competitions | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...fear that Israel would pocket any concessions it made without giving ground toward returning the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 war. If President Hafez Assad is really backing out now, the other Arabs might follow suit. But he appeared primarily to be laying down a marker -- no agreement on anything without a return of the Golan -- and building pressure on the U.S. to push Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Must We Talk? Now? | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...California's San Mateo County, charges against a man arrested and jailed for a brutal rape were dropped in 1988 after a PCR test showed he could not have been the attacker. A year later another man was arrested in another rape case. Not only did a DNA marker make him a suspect in the unsolved rape, but the victim's jewelry was found in his girlfriend's possession and his fingerprint matched one found on the victim's car. Result: a conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ultimate Gene Machine | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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