Word: tested
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...students have been held back at some point in their childhood. (Among blacks and Hispanics the figure is close to 50%.) Just how high do we want the percentages to go? This year the Harvey-Dixmoor school district in Illinois tried to require eighth-graders to pass the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills before they could go on to high school. Of 172 students, three-quarters flunked. After realizing the impracticality of flunking so many (and withstanding a shower of complaints from furious parents), the school board put off its promotion plan for another year. Chicago's policy, meanwhile...
Such a relief. In a test of wills in which one side had all the weapons but both underestimated the other's staying power, Milosevic cracked first. The chilling spectacle of NATO slamming 20,000 bombs and missiles into Yugoslavia can come to a merciful end. Bill Clinton proves--again--to be the luckiest President alive. At nearly the exact moment that Clinton gathered the Joint Chiefs to confront the unpalatable implications of a ground war to salvage the stalemated air campaign, Milosevic handed him victory...
...cable-TV channels and financial websites, passive investing is starting to become passe. "Everybody's an expert," grumbles a high-ranking executive at one fund company--a reference to the growing legion of e-traders who are sucking money from money managers at a rate that is starting to test their nerves. Sure, the $5.9 trillion fund industry is still chugging along quite nicely. But after a decade of explosive growth, it seems poised for a shakeout, as too many stock funds (about 3,500 at last count) scramble for a slowing money supply...
...week's Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from Iowa State University found that taking andro did nothing for testosterone levels. Instead, it boosted the amount of estrogen-like compounds in the blood and decreased levels of HDL, or "good" cholesterol, by 12%. Moreover, andro did not help test subjects build muscle mass at all. Scientists want to do more research to be sure, but right now it looks as though all that androstenedione consumed by would-be sluggers after McGwire broke the home-run record may have been taken in vain...
...19th century for a textile printer and then became the home of an electric firm--ring through the place in deeper chords than the sound installation that mimics the tones of the old clock tower. One 18-ft.-high-ceilinged room was used to generate lightning to test the capacitors the electric firm made. Now video artist Tony Oursler has annexed that space for a talking-light-bulb piece. "We have yet to have an artist who comes here who doesn't have a big idea," says Thompson. "These buildings have a heft that invites large gestures...