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College officials who de-emphasize the SAT usually focus more on evaluating the high schools that students come from. "If we don't have SAT any longer, we'll have to weigh more heavily on what's left - the students' GPA, their curriculum of college-prep courses and other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should SATs Matter? | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

Neither does Jazz. This is the work of someone taking a long look in from the outside, and this, paradoxically, is its greatest strength. The whole series practically reels from the excitement of discovery. The history is fresh, the music is new to Burns, who, he has said, knew almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fascinating Rhythms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

NOW HEAR THIS INVENTOR: GEOFF BALL Hearing-impaired since he was 8, Geoff Ball waited years for someone to create an implantable hearing device. With none forthcoming, he developed one himself. Vibrant Soundbridge is an external processor linked to a skull-mounted internal receiver. Unlike standard hearing aids, which merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will They Think Of Next? | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

I would like to amplify my comments on the RU 486 method of abortion. Research compiled by the American Psychological Association shows that for most women the major psychological aftereffect of abortion is relief and that very few women experience any serious psychological difficulties with abortion. It is possible that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

This invites the question: Just when did athletes become America's moral yardsticks? It seems that at some point sports figures were transformed from the faultless giants of weekly newsreels to public dartboards who embody - and amplify - all that's wrong with society. Sure, other public figures, such as actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, They're Athletes, Not Philosophers | 5/30/2000 | See Source »

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