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...around me, people murmured that I must be patient, that modern medicine would make it happen in time. But I lacked the fortitude--optimism? attitude of surrender?--required for indefinite treatment. Within months, even the act of entering a pharmacy and purchasing an ovulation-predictor kit had become a painful trial. As the disappointments accrued, each procedure felt less a celebration of potential life than a small death...
...millenarian fuss is not attributable to any one thing. But one of its sources has long fascinated me: the prophecies of Nostradamus. Nowadays, every pulp television program on the millennium seems to place this enigmatic 16th century French citizen at center stage. He is touted constantly as the predictor of the Kennedy assassinations, Saddam Hussein, Hitler, AIDS and just about everything else. Finally, my curiosity compelled me to sit down and read his main work, Les Propheties...
...debate they are renewing stretches back decades ("ages and ages," sighs chief College Board researcher Howard Everson). Some point out that high school grades are a better predictor of college success than SATs. Others argue that the test favors not just whites but boys. An entire advocacy group called FairTest exists almost solely to generate press releases that chip away at the SAT's encrusted position in American education...
...task force's findings will undoubtedly intensify debates about whether the SAT deserves the respect it commands from college admission officers. For years, the test's critics have argued not only that it is a lousy measure of intelligence and predictor of academic success but also that it is culturally biased...
...team had hoped to be able to predict accurately both how people would test and how they would cope on receiving the results. "So far," says Brandt, "it's been a bust." The only predictor of test results remains age; since HD typically hits between ages 30 and 50, the older the person, the higher the chance of a negative result. As for predicting people's reactions, most preliminary hypotheses have been replaced by new ones. Contrary to expectations, for instance, married people have a harder time coping with bad news than singles (perhaps they worry about becoming a burden...