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...response to this criticism, along with complaints that the exams test students rather than institutions, assessors at Harvard and elsewhere are seeking to diversify their tools. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, for example, uses the College Outcome Measurement Project (COMP) exam to test student ability to clarify values, solve higher-order problems, and communicate. Seniors are also asked to evaluate their college experience and education in a thorough survey...
...AIDS] test would find more actual cases and have a smaller proportion of false-positives if it were required only in those states already hard hit by the epidemic," said Mark Kleiman, aKennedy School lecturer on public policy who hasalso studied the problem of AIDS testing...
...North, asked her to work weekends at the National Security Council, she readily agreed. Hall, 27, a strikingly pretty blond with blue-green eyes, often turned down modeling jobs because she was afraid they might interfere with her secretarial duties. Hall even rejected the chance to take a screen test because she was just too busy. Said a friend: "She was a good employee, and a good employee does what her employer wants...
Researchers have long suspected that heredity plays a role in some if not all cases, and the Amish present an ideal setting in which to test that hypothesis. Not only does bipolar behavior contrast sharply with the community's quiet ways, making it easy to diagnose, but a number of confounding factors that might contribute to such behavior are absent: alcoholism, drug abuse, unemployment, divorce and violence are extremely rare. In addition, the Amish have large families (seven children on average) and keep genealogical records worthy of Mendel. Best of all, they represent a closed genetic pool...
Earlier in the week the superpowers tested weapons from their existing arsenals in wastelands on opposite sides of the world. High above Canada's Northwest Territories, an American B-52 launched a cigar-shaped cruise missile over the frozen Beaufort Sea. After flying at 500 m.p.h. and occasionally skimming as low as several hundred feet, the weapon touched down smoothly in Alberta four hours after launch. It was the first successful cruise test in a year...