Word: testes
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Still, there are no real alternatives to the SAT and its kid brother, the ACT. (Produced by an Iowa City testing company and formerly called the American College Testing Assessment, the ACT is almost as widely taken as the SAT but considered less prestigious.) Despite the attacks, the percentage of four-year colleges requiring either test has actually increased since 1990, from 77% to 82%. Most admissions officers say the tests can be a useful guard against grade inflation; according to the College Board, 37% of students report getting A's today, up from 28% 10 years...
...understand the advantages of avoiding an SAT verdict better than Mark Meadows and Lien Le. Meadows says he can't remember exactly how he fared on the test, but he knows it wasn't a score that would vault him from a middle-class life in Santa Rosa, Calif., to Harvard. His mother, a nurse, had home-schooled him for several years, and his math skills were weak. He graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA and went to tiny Pacific Union College. But he thought he needed a bigger name on his graduate-school applications; he applied...
...Jamestown girls who fell hard is Amber Arnold, 18, who dated Williams for a year. Awaiting her HIV test results, Arnold harbors little regret about the relationship: "I just want people to know that even though he did know that he had it and he did this to a lot of people, he is not a monster." Starteisha Hood, 16, says Williams infected three of her friends, but she too comes to his defense: "The girls could have said no; it takes...
...dinner," says Grasso. But a forgettable meal. He barely touched the exquisitely prepared lamb that had been placed in front of him. He was scheduled to fly to Cairo on Tuesday but returned promptly to New York. "It was clear," he says, "that we were going to have another test...
...beta-carotene-rich foods have a marked decrease in their risk of cancer. Those studies set off a beta-carotene craze and created a huge market for beta-carotene supplements. It wasn't until the late 1980s that researchers from Finland and the U.S. decided to test the proposition that beta-carotene in pill form could protect smokers from cancer. The results were not what they expected. As the researchers reported in 1994 and 1996, smokers who took the beta-carotene pills actually suffered an increase in cancer rates. "Those studies sent shock waves through the vitamin community," says Bonnie...