Word: testes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House has delighted in trotting out what one Democrat describes as "itsy-bitsy proposals for itsy-bitsy babies," including safety standards for car seats, a plan for controlling kids' access to Internet smut, and a revamped immunization program. Last week Clinton announced that drug companies would be required to test more medicines specifically for use by kids. "Children are not rugged individuals," he said. "They depend upon us to give them love and guidance, discipline and the benefit of good medical care...
...Diego to Sonoma Valley, and the state board of education is expected soon to release a new, more traditional math framework for California schools. Meanwhile, McKeown and whole-math detractors like Lynne Cheney, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, darkly warn that President Clinton's voluntary national test for eighth-graders, set for 1999, is being used to promote a whole-math agenda. Says Cheney: "Every single member appointed to the math [exam's] panel is a whole-math advocate." Department of Education officials bristle at the charge, saying the exam will test both fundamental math skills...
...course, the most convincing defense of whole math would be evidence that it works. In a few states that have emphasized new-new math, such as Connecticut, there are early indicators of improved student performance. Critics in California, on the other hand, point to test scores in cities like Santa Barbara and Palo Alto that show at least temporary drop-offs after whole math has been introduced. One thing's certain: lukewarm results won't cut it. In the most recent worldwide comparison, the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, U.S. eighth-graders fell below the international average and miles...
That should be a problem for the nation's conscience as well as mine. Government programs are shot through with benefits for those who don't need them. Yet any proposal to institute a means test is either ignored or howled down. Example: Medicare premiums are the same for me as for someone with a fraction of my income. But the Senate's proposal to make affluent seniors pay more was dropped from the tax bill, largely because House Republicans feared a savage attack from Democrats...
Blindsided on live TV, her attorney Robert M. Baum at first hedged, but later said Jackson would not submit to the test, at least not until after her sentencing in October. "The test will not change the fact that Autumn was raised to believe he was the father," Baum said. Jackson supporters attacked the Cosby TV ploy as grandstanding, pointing out that he had refused their earlier requests to take a paternity test. Some skeptics were suspicious because Cosby's blood sampling was done by surprise and in secret rather than in a controlled setting along with Autumn, in keeping...