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...Education Testing Service, which administers several national exams, requires photographic identification, such as a driver's license or school ID, in order to take the SAT. For the GRE graduate-school exam, a photo must be taken at the actual test site. In both cases, ETS asks people taking the test who may be wearing a veil to remove their face covering in order to be identified and prevent any fraud. "We have not had any issues related to this policy," which has been in place for more than a decade, says Mark McNutt, an ETS spokesman. (See the underreported...
...Massachusetts between Coakley and Brown as a "toss-up," a major surprise given that they're running for a seat long held by Ted Kennedy. But the White House has more than a crucial Senate vote riding on the outcome: Tuesday's election will be the first crucial test of the effectiveness of their entire 2010 campaign plan...
...Current treatment guidelines do not call for the prescription of antiretroviral drugs until there is evidence of progressive damage to the immune system. But in the wake of last year's Lancet study, some health experts have begun promoting a "test and treat" policy for populations with high HIV rates, as in major Western cities and parts of the developing world. Test and treat calls for the immediate treatment of all HIV-infected patients to reduce transmission rates. In November, WHO held a conference in Geneva to discuss whether the policy should be rolled out through its various agency programs...
...Kahn, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a contributor to the Science study, says test and treat should not be confused with WHO's goal of universal access to antiretroviral drugs, which he says is a worthy one. But because the treatment for drug-resistant HIV strains is expensive - it requires a constantly changing cocktail of new, pricey drugs - and because adherence to such a complicated drug regimen can be difficult for patients, Kahn believes WHO and other institutions should begin planning for the time that HIV drug resistance begins in earnest, particularly...
...event to expect is a visit from the club’s Grandmaster Keun Ha Kim, who will be traveling all the way from Canada to Cambridge in order to test Harvard's black belts. The Grandmaster, who last visited three or four years ago, only makes an appearance for special occasions, said Xie. (Cool fact: taekwondo Olympic silver medalist Mark Lopez, another special guest, helped jumpstart the celebrations last semester by coming to Harvard to run a training seminar...