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...environs of the low 600s. There are two reasons for the writing test's imprecision: first, the multiple-choice component of the test will be just 20 to 30 minutes, compared with 70 minutes each for math and reading. Less time means fewer questions, and it's harder to wring out measurement error with a small number of items. (Think about it this way: if you taste only one dish served by a chef, you can't judge him with as much precision as if you eat everything on the menu.) Even worse, each test will feature just one essay...
...RFID-tagged soda can found at a crime scene to her credit card. While RFID certainly has the potential to be the most invasive consumer technology ever, supporters--consumers themselves, after all--are working on safeguards, such as "kill codes" for tags after checkout. "Privacy mavens are going to wring their hands over this, and I'm sympathetic," says Saffo, "but RFID is too good to stop...
...sanctions - which are unlikely to be lifted with an election on the way. - By Bruce Crumley and Adam Zagorin We Owe You Money? Get In Line Britons are famed for loving an orderly queue. But a new law may cause chaos in the ranks of those seeking to wring funds from insolvent firms. Unleashed last week, the Enterprise Act makes it harder for banks to push a firm into receivership (almost 20,000 U.K. businesses failed last year). Instead, it promotes the appointment of administrators acting on behalf of all creditors, in the U.S. style. This spells...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talked to TIME's Mark Thompson last week about his campaign to wring more fighting power out of the U.S. military without increasing troop size. He said he had proposed some 40 ways to do so in an 11-page memo now being circulated among senior Pentagon officials. Rumsfeld spoke by phone while on a plane headed to an undisclosed location. Excerpts...
...than 20 million units worldwide. After some down years, the video-game industry as a whole is growing, but EA is exploding: its revenues shot up more than 40% last year to $2.5 billion, almost three times the revenue of its nearest rival, Activision. And EA is managing to wring more sales out of fewer games: it produced only 58 in 2002 vs. 68 in 2000. "We do fewer things, and we do them better," says Probst. "We don't just throw something at the wall and hope it sticks...