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...system advantaged students with greater financial resources, who had the means to continue pouring time and money into test prep. There is no compelling evidence to argue that this problem will not repeat itself. Although students taking the SAT may apply for fee-waivers, some students will not obtain them and others simply cannot afford to spend endless amounts of time indefinitely preparing for the test. In this age of so much educational advocacy focusing on narrowing the gap associated with wealth and student performance, the College Board would do well to avoid such a potentially damaging backlash...
...entire lives are now one long, chaotic stream of existence: waiting in line each morning to fill up containers with water from the only working tap on the ground floor of our building; baking homemade bread from the depleting supply of flour we managed to obtain a few days into the offensive; turning on the power generator for 30 to 50 minutes in the evening to charge phones and watch the news. Meanwhile, the constant in our lives has become the voice of the reporter on the small transistor radio giving reports every few seconds of the location and resulting...
...following year, CES spread to nine floors across three New York hotels and attendees were buzzing about devices such as a tiny radio that could be worn on the wrist and a "Portable Executive Telephone" that cost more than $2,000, weighed 19 pounds and required users to obtain licenses from the Federal Communications Commission proving U.S. citizenship...
...North Americans. Such heightened life expectancy summarizes many of Cuba’s achievements of the past half-century. Fewer infants die at birth in Havana than in Washington, DC. Over the decades Cubans acquired better access to nutrition, curative and preventive health care free of charge, schooling to obtain the information needed to lead healthier lives, options for physical exercise in state-supported athletics and sports, and all under conditions of sufficient equality to permit a broad universal advance. It was the best of times in many ways...
...making arrests, there are other challenges. Previously, U.S. troops could detain Iraqi nationals at will, and for unspecified lengths of time without due process if they were suspected to have participated in insurgent activity. Now the troops must first obtain an Iraqi warrant - something that often requires the presentation of a witness to a judge. Even once a suspect is detained, U.S. forces are legally obligated to hand him to Iraqi forces within 24 hours...