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In 1974, Allan Nairn, future critic of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and its most widely recognized test, the SAT, was a senior in a New Jersey public high school. He was faced with teachers, parents and fellow students who treated the exam with the cutthroat intensity of battle and...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saga of the SAT: A Culture of Obsession | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

This reaction of the frequent binge drinker is shared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies, which describes itself as "supported by eleven international beverage alcohol companies." A report of this center refers to a ten-drink measure of dangerous drinking in contrast to our five-drink measure. That's...

Author: By Henry Wechsler, | Title: A Plea to End Binge Drinking | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

The name shingles derives from cingulum (Latin for belt or girdle) and refers to the fact that the accompanying blisters often cluster in a broad band, typically on just one side of the body. In my case, the skin lesions traced out the end branches of the fifth cranial, or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stealthy Virus | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

In Webster's Dictionary a bigot is defined as "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices." Given that definition, White is correct, even polite, when he refers to David Horowitz as a bigot. Anyone who examines Horowitz's writings over the years will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Outside Providence--the title refers to Tim's native habitat, Pawtucket, R.I., as well as to the silence of God when it comes to doofus teenagers--works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. For the coming-of-age cliches don't stop once Tim settles in at Cornwall. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of God and Doofus Teens | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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