Word: teste
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...always put a high premium on academics, and I was always good at athletics. For high school, I went to the Hun School in Princeton, N.J., which is a very challenging boarding school, where I got more practice at balancing the two. At Florida State, I really wanted to test my mettle as a student-athlete, and I did that by competing for a starting position early in my freshman year, but also by taking pre-med classes, getting involved in the community [Rolle started a program aimed at teaching local Seminole Indian children the benefits of health], being...
...arguments, and insist foreign policy be dictated by self-interest, find themselves swayed by a third argument. If weather starts wars, and wars incite terrorists and violent opponents to the West, then it is in the West's self-interest to try to manage the weather. Darfur is a test case of whether our leaders are able to embrace this kind of broad, long-term view over short-term gains. If they can, they may be able to prevent the pattern repeating...
...ability to improve test scores is clearly not the only sign of a good teacher. But it is a relatively objective measure in an industry with precious few. And in schools where kids are struggling to read and subtract, it is a prerequisite for getting anything else done. In their defense, Washington teachers and principals, like educators in many of the country's worst school districts, talk about trying to teach a seventh-grader who is eight months pregnant; about being assaulted by students; about holding meetings for parents, replete with free food, and no one showing up. Washington Teachers...
...survive off the ration books that offer them sugar, rice, beans and (only for the elderly) cigars. But to get past subsistence, you need to shop at the air-conditioned hard-currency stores. That's where Damaris goes to find a specialized nail clipper she needs for the manicurist test she's taking the following week. But it costs nearly $20, three times what it would in the U.S. A knockoff 26-in. (65 cm) "PanaBlack" TV--one of those outdated crt behemoths--is listed at over $750. It's the result of a supply chain gone insane. Chinese influence...
...test of a collector is to acquire the most treasure for the least money. It was during the Depression that my grandfather became a great collector. He was not born rich, but he had a genius for money, especially for primitive and "odd and curious" currencies. In 1934, the New York Times described his coin collection as one of the largest in the world. "A lot of people call us crazy," he told the paper, "but I think it's a worthwhile hobby. It keeps me broke most of the time." Like any master hunter, he had a scavenger...