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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you see the numbers that you do with standardized test scores, showing that black or hispanic students are doing worse than white or Asian sudents... it's kind of a yellow warning light that tells you to ask yourself if there's a possibility of discrimination," she said...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colleges Urged to Rely Less on Standardized Tests | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...certainly agree that test should be used responsibly. They should be only one part of the paradigm," he said...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colleges Urged to Rely Less on Standardized Tests | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...When you see the numbers that you do with standardized test scores, showing that black or hispanic students are doing worse than white or Asian students... it's kind of a yellow warning light that tells you to ask yourself if there's a possibility of discrimination," she said...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dept. of Ed. Suggests Limits on SAT Use | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...state is forced to permit the DNA test, there is a good chance it will prove O'Dell's guilt. Knox is eager to believe the best about her brother: that a 1975 kidnapping conviction was probably a setup, that his fatal knifing of a fellow inmate was self-defense. But to less loving eyes, O'Dell seems like a man who might well have been capable of killing Schartner. All the more reason, says Knox, that the state should hand over the evidence. "Let's test it and find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sister's Plea: Test the DNA | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...closely watched one too. Quite apart from being a timely test of war by committee (take note, NATO), it's Kasparov's first public confrontation with computer technology since his match with IBM's Deep Blue in 1997. Those games, billed as a historic confrontation between man and machine, ended with man's humiliating defeat (and petulant calls by Kasparov for IBM to hand over Deep Blue's printouts; two years later, they still refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kasparov's World War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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