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Nine colleges are participating in a trial of Bial's test, which was first given to 400 students in New York City in October 1999. James Sumner, dean of admissions at 1,400-pupil Grinnell College in Iowa, is hoping a test like Bial's will help identify strong minority candidates the college might miss in its traditional SAT-and-ACT-based selection process. This year Grinnell accepted two minority students who participated in the Bial-Dale test. The next step for the research is to track whether the participants stay in school and how much they contribute...
...Nine colleges are participating in a trial of Bial's test, which was first given to 400 students in New York City in October 1999. James Sumner, dean of admissions at 1,400-pupil Grinnell College in Iowa, is hoping a test like Bial's will help identify strong minority candidates the college might miss in its traditional SAT- and-ACT-based selection process. This year Grinnell accepted two minority students who participated in the Bial-Dale test...
...MORE JUNGLE ROT INVENTOR: SUMNER BARENBERG If you have ever opened a box of fruit or vegetables only to discover a carton of penicillin, Microsphere is the nontoxic microbial biocide for you. Packaged in perishables and clothing containers as a fine powder, Microsphere is inactive until humidity hits. Then, like a chemistry teacher's long-aborning dream, it turns into a gas that safely fights off bacteria and mold...
Last week, in a final push, the mayor dusted off Gone With the Wind, Lastinger second-grader Stephen Sumner ripped through Tom Sawyer and aced 19 out of 20 questions, and Rotarians challenged Kiwanians to a read-off. At Lastinger, Kaitlyn Pritchard, 7, nailed the test on a book called Arthur's Eyes. The 1/2 point gave her 20 for the year, and she couldn't wait to tell her parents. "I'm going to surprise them tonight," she said...
...than flat Champagne. Yet Bronfman stubbornly stuck to his show-biz guns. He shelled out $10.4 billion for Polygram music in 1998, making his family's 76-year-old liquor business look like a sidelight. Bronfman has since been shopping his empire to the usual mogul suspects: Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone and News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, among others...