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...following an act of copulation - scientists can try using lab-sterilized males to edge out their fertile competitors. But because mosquitoes are sterilized using radiation, it's unclear whether they function exactly like untouched mosquitoes, so Hoy hopes that his team's findings can someday be used to acoustically test these lab-reared males to ensure they're as willing and competent as the wild males to perform the mating duet...
...under charges of polygamy. According to press accounts, Blackmore is alleged to have as many as 26 wives and 108 children. (According to tradition, the first wife is listed as a legal marriage, and the others are "celestial wives" recognized only within their faith.) The upcoming trial will test polygamy laws in the face of the Canadian Charter of Rights and its broad protection of the exercise of religion. But more than anything else, the trial will test the mettle of a community that has wrestled with the thorny issue of Bountiful for more than 60 years...
...College Board doesn’t support excessive test taking,” said College Board spokeswoman Alana Klein. “Research has shown that students see very insignificant score improvements upon retaking the test more than twice...
Both Fitzsimmons and Furda stressed that, Score Choice policy aside, the admissions process is about far more than standardized test scores...
...have always had the policy that we will take the highest score whenever it occurs,” Fitzsimmons said. “Whether students use score choice or send every single test they’ve ever taken it’s actually not going to change the way we look at their test...