Word: teste
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...that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug, dimly lit lair, press a glowing button labeled "Thirsty," which summons a smiling server, and you'll be downing cocktails and nibbling on dim sum in minutes. Our test troupe of warblers featured dead ringers for Alanis Morissette alongside nervous off-key newbies who quickly lost their inhibitions and refused to give up the microphone. But beware of karaoke's addictive quality: after such performances as a song-and-dance interpretation of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, a duet...
...ticket holder for four years, the X-ray-machine salesman from Peoria, Ariz., says he and his girlfriend used to bring mist sprayers and portable fans to keep cool as they grilled on the bleachers at Sun Devil Stadium. "The first four or five games used to be a test of your endurance," he says. Now the couple enjoys $100 cushioned club seats in the soaring, air-conditioned arena...
...much better at all, according to fine print of Dee's study. On a simple 100-point reading test or math test, this "teacher gender effect" might alter a boy's score by one or two percentage points. Hardly the difference between...
...What else boosts math scores? Well, don't laugh, but teaching on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers is better than blackboards with chalk. Students can simply see better. Another study showed that humming fluorescent lights are particularly hard on students - they make gifted students test "ungifted." And light blue paint on the walls of a kindergarten lowered misbehavior...
...Even what your child eats for lunch matters more than the sex of his teacher. In fact, getting good calories into students has so consistently been shown to improve test scores that some schools in Virginia have been accused of cheating a la Barry Bonds - by juicing their students on test days. On those days, the free lunches that poor students received had unusually higher calorie counts. Among those students, English test scores rose by 14%, and 18% in History and Social Studies. Maybe they scored higher on the next round of child obesity tests as well...