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...order to take in fewer young people who have a criminal record, are overweight, or have no high school degree, the Army has been spending about $22,000 per recruit in enlistment bonuses ... Even with a high school degree, many potential recruits still fail the Armed Forces Qualification Test (the AFQT) and cannot join. The test is used by the military to determine math and reading skills. About 30 percent of potential recruits with a high school degree take the test and fail it. ... Even when recruits qualify, health problems can cause significant deployment and expense problems later; for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Recruiting: The Kids Aren't All Right | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...central issue in the election was the recent announcement of the Cambridge public school district’s failing test scores—despite spending $25,000 on each student...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Election Results Announced | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...nuclear test and the resulting international outcry, the detention (and subsequent release) of two U.S. journalists for illegal entry, a spat with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (described by a Pyongyang official as looking like "a pensioner going shopping"), serious food shortages. On the face of it, 2009 appears an unlikely year for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) to woo more visitors. But according to British-run, Beijing-based Koryo Tours, a company that has been escorting groups of visitors to North Korea for 16 years, such a push is under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacationing in Lovely... North Korea? | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...Implicit Association Test seems to be flawed from the start, presumably yielding only the results it is intended to: that, in fact, you are a racist. Or a sexist. Or that based on the given test, results were inconclusive to conclusively say that you are a racist, but you probably...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: Project Implicitly Racist | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...next elections: in 1998 the Democrats picked up five seats in the House, and Bush picked up eight House seats and two Senate seats in 2002. But they are typically useful petri dishes for experimenting with all kinds of messaging and new technologies. In 2001, for instance, Karl Rove test-drove most of the components that would help the GOP expand its majorities the next year, such as techniques for compiling voter lists and his 72-hour get-out-the-vote blitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Race Gives Republicans a Blueprint for Success | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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