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...eighth-grade level, mainly because of poor schools and illiterate parents. "We believe that education and the ability to read are the core of anyone's life--their economic life and social enjoyment," says Jim. "Your third-grade reading level is so important. It is the No. 1 early predictor of high school dropout rates." If you can't read, you can't learn social studies, science or history, he notes...
...result was that the College tended to accept high academic achievers whose test scores were a good predictor of their success at the university level. Other colleges followed suit and, by the mid-1960s, most selective academic institutions used the Conant model for their admissions...
...bluntly, has not been the case. Crime rates are virtually the same, and are generally thought to be surprisingly invariant with incarceration rates. Crime has decreased somewhat recently, but this is hardly unexpected due to the economic prosperity of the past decade. Historically, the economy is the strongest predictor of crime rates. Besides, by almost all measures we still have the highest crime rate in the world, so clearly what we are doing isn't working on a more general level...
...POWERFUL PREDICTOR Had your high-sensitivity C-reactive protein tested lately? Maybe you should, even if you've never heard of it. Its presence indicates inflamed arteries, and researchers report that it may be more strongly linked to heart attacks than cholesterol. A study of 28,000 healthy women found that those with high blood levels of hs-CRP (as your doctor calls it) are 4 1/2 times as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke even if their cholesterol count is normal. The test for hs-CRP is inexpensive and has been approved for use since late last...
...advisers are quick to offer excuses for McCain's loss. This was not, they say, a referendum on McCain's "electability." Results in conservative South Carolina, they go on to spin, are hardly repr'sentative of the nation as a whole - Michigan's primary will be a more accurate predictor of general voting sentiment. And, as the talking heads, ever anxious to keep the contest alive, are quick to point out, while the support of the religious right was a wonderful tool for Bush in South Carolina, in more moderate states it may prove to be something of a monkey...