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...their scores. But in the real world, the test doesn't keep getting longer; here it did - and yet the scores marched higher all the same. What the researchers believe explains the improvement is fatigue - or more precisely, what the fatigue represents. A feeling of exhaustion is often a stand-in for anxiety. Most students - particularly comparatively high achievers who have already gotten into college - learn to use the stress that accompanies a test as a prod to action and concentration. The experts call the phenomenon "achievement motivation," or a kind of competitive energy spurt...
...primary fight to contend with, has a $4.9 million war chest and is already leading all three Democratic candidates in polls. As Republicans try to regroup in the face of major losses in the last two cycles on all levels of government, it seems they are making their first stand here in Virginia. "Right now the stars seemed aligned right for the Republicans. Since the Jimmy Carter era, when one party wins the White House the other party wins the Virginia governor's race the following year," says Mark Rozell, a political-science professor at George Mason University in Fairfax...
...while doubts remain about Labour's chosen medium, Brown's bigger challenge remains the message. "You simply cannot solve these problems through changes at the top," Brown told Labour parliamentarians Monday night. In that sense, he's right: the party ought to stand and fall on its vision and policies more than the P.M.'s style of leadership. That it doesn't owes much to the prolonged absence of any big plan from Brown. The Prime Minister shelved plans for an election only months after taking over from Tony Blair in 2007 - a vote he would have likely...
...garage each month. Today, after his business grew 900% between 2007 and 2008, the boards are shipped by the container load. Chambers sells about 1,000 per month, including more than 150 a month out of his central Oahu shop. Chambers, who lost 40 lbs from stand-up paddle surfing, says, "We can't expand fast enough. We can't even supply everybody." (See pictures of a preppy summer vacation at LIFE.com...
...Pyongyang offered Seoul no meaningful concessions in return for its help. Upon taking office last year, Lee changed course and linked further economic cooperation to the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program. Some in the South believe Lee has to change his hard-line stand to reduce the rising tensions. "For the past years, we had built up some sort of a relationship" with North Korea, says homemaker So Young Soon, 51. "But this administration I think has failed to negotiate with the North...