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...chemicals like arsenic from deep water without activated charcoal. It takes out salt water from the ocean without osmosis. It has no chemicals, it has no filters, it has no membranes, no consumables of any kind. It takes any input of water - you don't even have to pretest it - and what comes out is pure, distilled water. It meets the U.S. pharmacopoeia standard for water that can be injected. It's astounding. And it takes one-third the power of a handheld dryer to make a thousand liters of water a day, which, based on the World Health Organization...
...other reason the writing test will be less reliable is that human beings, not machines, will grade the essay. In June, I participated in a mock grading session with members of the College Board's writing-development committee. We read 15 essays by kids who had taken a pretest; they had been given 25 minutes to write on a topic I can't reveal, since it may appear on a future SAT. We scored the essays on a scale of 1 to 6, 1 meaning "very poor" organization and development and 6 meaning the student organized her thoughts, displayed "facility...
...18th in line for the pretest, said she had not watched “Jeopardy!” in five years, but the opportunity to pay for a year of tuition with a few slams of the buzzer was too tempting...
...many times a week does my family watch ‘Jeopardy!’? Don’t make me answer that question,” Firestone said an hour and a half before the pretest...
...addition to the pretest and the mock competition, the Jeopardy! Clue Crew—a band of crew members who travel around in a quest for obscure facts—created a circus-like atmosphere, handing out key chains, t-shirts, a special “Simpsons” edition of the Jeopardy! board game and tickets to the New Haven show...