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...three years, Sternberg has been working on a new test to augment the SAT, one that asks students to write captions for New Yorker cartoons, dictate stories into tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever...
...Earl is adding a new mother ship: a Las Vegas resort with 2,567 hotel rooms and a 7,000-seat theater. Much of his $30 million movie-memorabilia collection will be used in the Starwood-run hotel, where guests can opt to sleep on Austin Powers' shagadelic revolving mattress or Sharon Stone's bed from Basic Instinct. ("With ice pick available on request," Earl says...
When Ashima visits their apartment once, to take care of Amber and Clover, and winds up sitting on Alan and Judy’s mattress, she “[cries] out, falling clumsily backward, startled to discover that it was filled with water...
...left hand. "I thought I was shooting at the ground," he says. "I remember pop-pop and then thinking, Oh no, I might have hit [Virgil] in the leg." He and Farley went to a friend's house and asked him to hide the gun under his mattress...
...Canada legalized ( A ) kidnapping babies. ( B ) topless hockey. ( C ) removal of mattress tags without penalty...