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...personality tests, quiz sites are all the rage on the Net these days. And they're more fun than on paper because your score pops up the second you answer the last question. Emode.com's funny tests can tell you whether you're a natural leader, a risk taker or just high maintenance. Coolquiz.com on the other hand, is an e-Trivial Pursuit, asking hundreds of questions about movies, music and history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goof-Off Guide | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...Performance on standardized tests, for example, is tightly linked with the quality of a test-taker's previous schooling. And while SAT II subject tests are the best predictors of college grades, Fitzsimmons says they are even more dependent on the quality of schooling than...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Gives you an Edge? Meritocracy's Last Stand | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Internet company designates and trains one note taker per class in an hour-long online tutorial and employs quality monitors to look over the notes...

Author: By Keramet A. Reiter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Bars Versity.com | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

Some people must be genetically predisposed to explore the frontiers. As a child, Bezos adored Star Trek, but it is unclear that he ever made a connection back then to his ancestors, people whose role in life was that of risk taker, exploring the unknown. The family can trace its American roots to the turn of the 19th century, when a colorful, 6-ft. 4-in. character named Colonel Robert Hall moved to San Antonio, Texas, from his home in Tennessee. A sepia-toned photo of him is framed in Bezos' living room and shows the man wearing a bizarre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Iran to acknowledge their roles, admit to a few regrets and argue that their cause is finally maturing. All three of the original planners of the siege, it turns out, are now key figures in moderate President Mohammed Khatami's government. Asgharzadeh smiles at the thought of a hostage taker becoming a democrat, but he insists that is exactly what he is. "There is no need to change the world anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radicals Reborn | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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