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...than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course at Florida A&M, a black university; six sat for the LSAT in the fall, and five scored in the 150s--on level with the national average for whites. Christie Stancil took the course at North Carolina Central University after her junior year, and her LSATs went up eight points. Her score helped her get into Yale Law School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Even the Score: Test Prep | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...Stancil Johnson, a long-haired Santa Monica psychiatrist who serves as Frisbee's official historian, has an apparently sober explanation for the disks' popularity. They are, he says, "the perfect marriage between man's greatest tool-his hand-and his greatest dream -to fly." But even Johnson is hard-pressed to account for the latest development on the Frisbee front. Among the crowds at Copper Harbor was a bevy of "froupies," short for Frisbee groupies. They too seemed to want to have a fling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Flipped Disks | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

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