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...knew this next assignment was special because the Firm's regional director was in the office. He only comes in when we play limousine tag in The Village...
...high stakes, educators hope, will translate into high scores. That has apparently been the case in Texas, which has long used its Texas Assessment of Academic Skills to tag schools that are low performers. Five years ago, just over half the state's students passed all the components of the TAAS; last year more than three-quarters did. During his campaign for re-election, Governor George W. Bush vowed to up the ante by holding back students who fail the TAAS. Says Bush: "In Texas we have found that when you raise the bar, people rise to the challenge...
...success: Clive and Cindy charged 25[cents] for girls and 50[cents] for boys, and it went till 4 a.m. Pretty soon Clive was getting requests to do more parties, and in 1973 he gave his first block party. He was Kool Herc now--that was the graffito tag he used to write on subway cars--and he got respect. At 18 he was the first break-beat deejay, reciting rhymes over the "break," or instrumental, part of the records he was spinning. He had two turntables going and two copies of each record, so he could play the break...
According to Lars-Erik Wiberg, president of the 50-person congregation, there is little chance the congregation would be able to gather enough money to purchase the land if it carried a $2.7 million price tag...
...take a sample of blood from a patient who has just developed a raging HIV infection. Various genes in his immune system are churning out millions of RNA molecules that will assemble the proteins needed to combat the infection. You extract the RNA and break it into pieces, tag each piece with a fluorescent chemical and pour the whole mess over the gene chip. The RNA tightly binds only to its exact DNA complement on the chip. The fluorescent tag tells you where on the chip you have a match. Then you look up the sequence of each matched spot...