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...Janice Gams of the College Board, adding to the don't-worry-we-know-what-we're-doing defense, suggested that when students have no knowledge that the exam will be repeated, "seeing the test form a second time does not guarantee a score increase." (Neither does bringing a pocket dictionary.) Gams added a statistical punch to her rationale, explaining that, "On average, students who repeat the same test form tend to get one more verbal and/or one more math question correct than if they had repeated with a different form...
...little insurance to cover major illness turns out to be low, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The report finds that 29 million people are now underinsured because their private insurance plans don't protect them from unusually large out-of-pocket expenses. What's the reason for the nearly 50% increase in the underinsured? Skyrocketing costs for catastrophic illnesses...
...recent tears. He remembers being frightened and tense as he guided the Cat toward an armed U.S. Forest Service agent holding a hand-lettered sign ordering Carver to stop. The agent stumbled and wound up briefly crawling on hands and knees. But Carver kept coming. He pulled out a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution, which he keeps with him always, and waved it defiantly at the agent as a crowd of about 200 people, a quarter of them armed, cheered him forward. "I was damn scared," says Carver. He was afraid someone--maybe the agent, maybe an overzealous...
...MOVEMENT IS NO MERE rekindling of the '70s' Sagebrush Rebellion, although it does share the same goal of increasing local control over federal lands. Carver, who carries his Constitution in his shirt pocket even while baling hay, is a product of the same antifederalist ferment that produced such widely divergent events as the Oklahoma City bombing and Ross Perot's recent proposal to launch a new political party. Nye's particular brand of rebellion is driven too by an intense feeling that the combined forces of federal law, environmental activism and urban growth may have doomed a mythic frontier life...
...think it's an attack on community service at all," Dickerson said. "It's about government. It's Clinton trying to put the government back into the people's pocket...