Word: testes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poberezny, president of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wis. The man who recently sold Denver the nine-year-old plane says the singer took it up for two checkout flights before the final, fatal one. The investigation still being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board may test another theory: that Denver had a freak collision with a pelican. But unless the NTSB finds otherwise, Denver, his plane and experimental aircraft in general should probably be presumed innocent...
...launched in 1999 to approach an asteroid named Toutatis and send a camera-equipped rocket barreling toward it. The missile, after taking close-up pictures of Toutatis, would smash into its surface while Clementine recorded the impact flash and analyzed any ejected material. The goal was not only to test our ability to rendezvous with an asteroid but also to determine Toutatis' composition and mechanical strength--important considerations in designing weapons to ward off incoming comets and asteroids...
TIME set out to track the flow of cash through a single large urban district--Baltimore's--to test the widespread assumption that urban schools fail because they don't have the money to do better. Last year the city spent $646 million on 110,000 children for a per-pupil total of $5,873, just shy of Maryland's statewide average. Yet the money produced a student body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim...
...more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed the Maryland Functional Test in mathematics, which measures only the most basic skills; in Baltimore County, 85% passed...
...when we don't give them the education they deserve. We send them off to school every day, hoping for the best but often settling for less. Teachers are usually overworked and underpaid. Public schools are often overcrowded and underfunded. We begrudge tax hikes for schooling, then bemoan low test scores...