Word: testing
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...there's blood in the stool or the sigmoidoscopy reveals a problem, a more thorough exam is required. (A positive stool test indicates cancer less than 10% of the time.) In a procedure called a colonoscopy, a gastroenterologist uses a light-tipped fiber-optic instrument to examine the entire length of the large intestine. Since you're sedated, the hardest part is often drinking the salty liquid needed to evacuate your bowels the night before...
Beside the sofa road-test issue, there are plenty of other reasons why this $40 billion industry might find e-commerce a risky road to take. Online furniture stores face costly returns, deliveries that can't be left to Federal Express and skeptical manufacturers. None of that is news to Andrew Brooks, CEO of Furniture.com Nevertheless, he thinks he can convert customers by making online sofa shopping much better than the showroom variety. Brooks is hoping to win consumers with features such as a program that allows them to click and drag pictures of furniture into a room...
...Bradley's marriage that gave his life its biggest test. At a recent stop in Iowa, Bradley was asked by a man in overalls if he had ever had a brush with adversity. Bradley answered that nearly failing his first semester at Princeton and a lackluster rookie Knicks season were hard. "But neither were as hard as when my wife developed breast cancer," he said. The disease was diagnosed in 1992, and Schlant underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy. Bradley became her secretary, taking notes in doctors' offices and making schedules for his shell-shocked wife. "I just remember his long...
WIRELESS WOES In most countries, the calling party pays for a wireless call. That's fair, but it doesn't happen here. Wireless callers and receivers both pay. And that won't change until the many wireless companies can create a unified billing policy. Good luck. AT&T tested a caller-pays system in Minneapolis this summer but charged rates that were too high to compete with its own Digital One plan, which bills at 11[cents] a minute. End of test. So if you answer the call...
...Scholastic Assessment Test is like the riddle of the Sphinx, an ordeal by questions that can make further progress on the road of life very iffy. Right answers put you on your way to Prestige U. The wrong ones could give you a lifelong personal stake in the debate over the minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup...