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Atkinson was addressing a situation that Conant and Chauncey didn't imagine. The SAT, now with millions of takers a year, has become a national fetish. A large portion of the high school student and parent population believes it is the main determinant of admission to a selective college, which in turn is the main determinant of one's eventual socioeconomic status (both propositions that the test's makers heatedly deny). High school students and their parents also believe that scores on the all important test can be raised by spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on courses that teach...
Pandora's box is never opened more profoundly than when a human being is created, regardless of the manner or means. In giving life to a child, either through old-fashioned sexual intercourse or with help from the modern miracles of science, every parent takes a turn at playing God. THOMAS EARL PRYOR Traverse City, Mich...
...bill on my parent's credit card [when I was 13]," Zittrain said. "I was hooked...
Judi Laing, parent of PSLM member Benjamin L. McKean '02, said the HUPD officers were unable to give her any real justification for their demands that she put down her brightly-colored "Living Wage Now" sign...
DoCoMo figured that out early, in part because it's a radical company for Japan. Run by a collection of castoffs and misfits from parent company Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (think of the old AT&T, only slower), DoCoMo isn't bogged down by Japan's sclerotic management style. The company's $175 billion market cap now dwarfs NTT's, and it is projected to earn $3 billion on sales of $39 billion for the fiscal year ending March...