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High schools are changing too. Baby boomer parents have started movements against homework, stringent graduation requirements, class rankings; it's as though they believe their children should never have to suffer the indignity of being evaluated. Pity those kids when they get their first job. Last month Laila Kouri, 16, reflected on the SAT as she sat through an expensive coaching class in ritzy Westport, Conn. "I know people who blow off classes, are failing school and walk into the SAT and get a 1200 the first time," she sighed. "How can this be a fair test?" Well, as Kouri...
Congress is going to have plenty of angry questions for the FBI this time. Why did it take so long to catch Hanssen? Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Shelby wants to know, "Why didn't someone finger him in some way?" Why does the FBI have less stringent standards for checking up on its people than other agencies have? The CIA has long employed routine polygraph tests to "flutter" agents every five years to search out misbehavior. Those tests are controversial, and Freeh has resisted using them, despite pressure from his own National Security Division managers to do so ever...
...High schools are changing too. Baby boomer parents have started movements against homework, stringent graduation requirements, class rankings; it's as though they believe their children should never have to suffer the indignity of being evaluated. Pity those kids when they get their first job. Last month Laila Kouri, 16, reflected on the SAT as she sat through an expensive coaching class in ritzy Westport, Conn. "I know people who blow off classes, are failing school and walk into the SAT and get a 1200 the first time," she sighed. "How can this be a fair test?" Well, as Kouri...
With the U.S. government's stringent import regulations, the BSE prion is unlikely to come from Europe, even without the new blood-donation rules (which, given supply shortages, many experts suspect will end up costing more lives than they could possibly save). Direct transmission from one person to another is considered highly unlikely...
...grandly modern Bank of China headquarters he hired renowned architect I.M. Pei's firm to build in Beijing. Now authorities appear to be getting serious about repairing the banking industry's rotten foundation as well as its image. Regulators recently announced a set of bank reforms, including more stringent audit requirements and lending policies based on Western banking models, which could improve competitiveness. In addition, the National Audit Office revealed last week that it has uncovered more than 170 cases of misconduct, implicating 221 officials, as part of a wide-ranging investigation into China's financial industry. Among them were...