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...simply helping kids decide if they need to take physics or chemistry before applying. They don't get to know the whole kid, or the whole family, which takes a lot of time. It's like a pediatrician. Some pediatricians just look at the throat of the kid and say, "You better take some pain reliever," and there are others who will say, "I notice you're tired, I notice that you seem stressed." It's looking at the kid as a whole that makes a great counselor different from a run-of-the-mill counselor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the College-Admissions Process | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...first in the string of accidents occurred on July 5, when two monorails collided at the Magic Kingdom's main station at closing time, killing driver Austin Wuennenberg, who friends say was working his dream job. Next, on Aug. 10, actor Mark Priest died in a hospital where he was being treated for a broken vertebra in his neck and other injuries from a fall that took place four days earlier during a mock sword fight at Captain Jack's Pirate Tutorial audience-participation show. According to his friend Jeffrey Breslauer, Priest - just before he died - said he was performing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mourning Death at the Magic Kingdom | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...community (which includes Disney World as well as other theme parks like Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando and a long list of medieval, western and Arabian Nights dinner shows), performers were inclined to view the deaths as freak accidents rather than negligence by Disney. "It would actually be unfair to say that Disney doesn't know what they're doing and they're lax," says Breslauer, a former Disney actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mourning Death at the Magic Kingdom | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...Many of those who aren't convinced of Al-Megrahi's guilt say their greatest regret is that he abandoned the appeal to overturn his conviction last week, presumably to clear the way for his release. Juval Aviv, a private investigator who was hired by Pan Am's insurance company to investigate the bombing, tells TIME that "as time has passed, flaws in the trial and in the evidence used to convict Mr. Al-Megrahi have been revealed. A new trial could have shone a light on a lot of things that were buried in the rush to convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lockerbie Bomber Returns to Cheers in Libya | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...final, officials from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), track and field's governing body, confirmed that Semenya had agreed to a gender-testing process that began in South Africa and was ongoing in Germany. Officials wouldn't give details of the testing, but did say that it involves an endocrinologist, a gynecologist, a psychologist, and both internal and external examinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could This Women's World Champ Be a Man? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

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