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...state exams and sprinkles test-taking tips ("Many problems can be solved without much calculating") throughout 36 different textbooks published by McGraw-Hill. In the summer of 2000 it launched Homeroom.com an online bank of more than 120,000 practice questions, which helps teachers pinpoint their students' strengths and weak spots. Like its competitor Kaplan, The Princeton Review offers workshops to help teachers tailor their daily lessons to state exams. The firm's latest offering: a $1,950 primer for parents on test-taking skills that, among other things, instructs them to serve an extra-large breakfast on test...
...Close readers of TIME will remember our Forecast 2001 issue, in which we made educated guesses about the major events and trends for the year. The political context then was a confused U.S. presidential election; the economic context was the collapse of tech stocks. We worried about weak leadership from a minority President, and we wondered if the technology collapse would plunge the world into full-blown recession. We were right about the danger of recession, but wrong about the causes and solutions. It was Osama bin Laden, not George W. Bush, who tipped the balance toward economic slowdown...
...dented by the continuing economic slump. In France, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac will likely face off for the presidency in a contest that begins in April - but Jospin has been hit by France's failing economy and Chirac by corruption allegations. Asia has a few weak leaders of its own, with Indonesia and Malaysia facing possible turmoil...
...tell” policy on gays. The military carries out the instructions of its civilian and elected commanders, and follows the laws created by political leaders. To blame those in uniform for the policies that they are obliged to enact is hypocritical, and is only a weak excuse to pick a scapegoat instead of lobbying those responsible for the situation...
Coming up just one match short to a team it was to weak to even play last year, the No. 39 Harvard women’s tennis team narrowly lost a tough 4-3 battle Saturday to No. 2 Duke...