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Brinkley's failed tenure bid last spring wasconsidered a test of how heavily a departmentweighs teaching ability when considering whetherto grant a candidate a lifetime post at theUniversity...
...time they are legally brain dead. But shortly after Baby Gabriel was born two weeks ago, Dr. Tim Frewen, head of pediatric intensive care at Children's Hospital in London, Ont., had her put on a life- support system to keep her organs healthy. Two days later, a test of her ability to breathe on her own was negative; three doctors, concluding all brain activity had ceased, declared Gabriel legally dead. Still on the life- support system, her body was flown to Loma Linda, Calif., where two days after her death, her heart was transplanted to Paul 2 1/2 hours...
Perhaps the most insidious growth in the budget has come in payments to middle- and upper-class citizens, a type of handout that typically carries no test of need. Social Security payments have increased 17% between 1981 and 1986, to $198.8 billion, even after adjustment for inflation. Many entitlements rise automatically because they are indexed to inflation...
...force fallible mortals to evaluate candidates' credentials when a standardized test which is believed to be both objective and predictive can do it for you? For the same inexorable logic which holds that good lawyers can be culled out by the LSAT, future business mogols by the GMAT, dexterous dcoctors by the MCAT, and brilliant scholars by the GRE also insists that the very best senior faculty can be identified by a standardized test...
...alternative, after all, is deliberation. With the TSAT, we can all hide behind our shields of objectivity and, with a willing suspension of disbelief, act as if a standardized test can make admission to the senior faculty--like admission to college, law school, business school, medical school, or graduate school--a more scientific process...