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THIS week, The New Republic carried a critique of the Princeton Review, a company that employs me to teach rich suburbanites how to beat the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The article asserts that the Princeton Review doesn't really improve students' qualifications for college but teaches them to "beat the test" without actually knowing the answers. The Princeton Review course, it says, allows wealthy students to exaggerate their qualifications for college, thereby gaining an advantage in admissions over equally talented students who can't afford...
Despite the scheduling office's assurances, within minutes of starting the exam on March 13, it became obvious that the proctor assigned to administer the exam to me knew very little calculus. He did not know the names of mathematical symbols on the test and resorted to describing each symbol to me by its physical appearance. Thus an integral sign, the most basic symbol of calculus, was "something that looks like an 's'." Those who are not blind often fail to appreciate that I have never seen mathematical symbols. Blind people use the Nemeth Braille Code of Mathematic and Scientific...
Mekonnen broke away from Juma Ikangaa with less than a mile left in the 26-mile, 385-yard test from the town green in Hopkinton to the Back Bay, crossing the finish line...
...doubt remembered the testimony earlier in the week by Vincent Cannistravo, a former NSC aide, who admitted, "You could never be sure whether what ((North)) said was true, fantasy, or was being told deliberately to mislead." And North's ability to win over an audience will face its roughest test this week, when prosecutor John Keker gets his turn to ask the questions. "North makes an excellent witness," said Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor. "The question is the cross-examination, which will provide by far the greatest dramatic element of the trial. The trial may well hinge...
...first controlled, energy-yielding nuclear-fusion reaction -- a Holy Grail of physics for nearly 40 years. Moreover, the event had not occurred in one of the great national laboratories; it was the work of a pair of chemists operating on a shoestring budget and using little more than a test tube, a pencil-thin strip of metal and a car battery. Even more incredible was the assertion that this humble apparatus, fueled with a form of hydrogen found in ordinary seawater, had generated four times as much energy as it consumed. Could this be a new and virtually limitless source...