Word: teste
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...Albert Straus, owner of the Straus Family Creamery in the small northern California town of Marshall, decided to test the feed that he gives his 1,600 cows last year and was alarmed to find that nearly 6% of the organic corn feed he received from suppliers was "contaminated" by genetically modified (GM) organisms. Organic food is, by definition, supposed to be free of genetically modified material, and organic crops are required to be isolated from other crops. But as GM crops become more prevalent, there is little that an organic farmer can do to prevent a speck...
...essay and filling out a brief self-evaluation questionnaire. Each student’s writing sample will then be compared to his or her Expository Writing placement test—the one that all students take at the beginning of freshman year. This design will also allow the the test to illuminate exactly the areas of writing instruction in which Harvard lags behind, providing targeted improvements...
...Harvard, however, should be wary that the test’s results may be skewed by its test group makeup. Students who enjoy writing will likely see this test as an easy and fun chance to make money, whereas students who do not enjoy writing or consider themselves “bad writers” may see 90 minutes of writing and the possible shame of poor performance as not worth the monetary incentive. Should the test results be overwhelmingly positive, more testing—perhaps involuntary—should follow...
...went. India played its first international game in 1932, and it was popularized with the advent of television and the introduction of one-day matches (in which each side is limited to facing only 300 balls during its turn at bat - as opposed to the traditional five-day test match in which each side bats twice, with no limit on the duration of an inning). After India's unexpected triumph in the 1983 World Cup, cricket became a cornerstone of popular culture in India - and South Asia (neighboring Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh all share India's passion...
...member of the women’s rugby team, said, “You have to get really creative sometimes and you feel really unsupported by the rest of the college community.” The women’s rugby team had to test this “creativity” last year by going door-to-door and asking students for their laundry change to pay for their trip to nationals...