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...advanced courses previously, Sadler said.Students who bypass the introductory level courses with AP scores eventually perform worse in higher level courses, Sadler said, citing additional findings of the study.The College Board, which administers the AP exams, has disputed the study’s findings.The executive director of College Board, Trevor Packer, said the study’s sample size was too small to be meaningful, adding that other studies conducted with larger sample sizes yielded results contradicting Sadler and Tai’s findings.Packer also said that Harvard—which issued a press release trumpeting Sadler?...

Author: By Rachel Banks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: AP Science Courses Are Poor Substitutes for College Work | 2/24/2006 | See Source »

...late bbc DJ John Peel described their last Glastonbury Festival performance as "surprisingly muscular," he was observing the gradual transformation of a band often relegated to the "twee" genre - music so light and self-referential that it almost shattered upon listening - of the late '80s. The surprise choice of Trevor Horn (the ex-Buggle who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood and t.A.T.u.) as producer on the last album, the brilliant Dear Catastrophe Waitress, was a play to reach beyond the sensitive librarian stereotype, even at the risk of alienating hard-core fans, some of whom are, actually, sensitive librarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belle on the Ball | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...take command of the interior monologue that psychologists call self-talk. This is the endless conversation that we all have with ourselves, processing events as they pass before our eyes. The average person speaks to himself at a rate of 300 to 1,000 words a minute. According to Trevor Moawad, director of mental conditioning for IMG Academies, a leading sports-training facility, that means that for a tennis player competing in a typical 2-hr. match, only about 40 min. are spent on the court contesting points, leaving an hour and 20 min. between points with little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Getting and Staying in the Zone | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...hard to believe. He can be very absent-minded." MARIE CORNELIUSEN, mother of artist Trevor Corneliusen of Olympia, Washington, who chained and padlocked his feet together for a self-portrait while camping in California's Mojave Desert and had to hobble for 12 hours to find help after he lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...what they perceive as another laboriously lush Lloyd Webber score and clumsy lyrics from the usually clever Zippel. Agreed, agreed, and doesn't matter. What's impressive about this adaptation of the Wilkie Collins mystery novel is how it moves. I don't refer only to the patented Trevor Nunn turntable that, for about the 18th time since the director used it in Les Mis?rables, forces the actors to scamper around the stage like rats on a treadmill. I mean the moving scenery: all video projections by designer William Dudley. In your theater seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Theater | 12/26/2005 | See Source »

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