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...Test-prep companies aren't waiting around to see that final product. Kaplan and Princeton Review - seasoned by years of providing SAT and ACT Prep - and upstart TestU are doing brisk business in the K-12 market producing everything from CD- ROMs and guidebooks meant to help students as young as third graders prepare for state exams to staff development seminars for teachers. This month Kaplan even published a book, "Crusade in the Classroom," which promises to tell parents exactly how President Bush's reforms will impact their children's lives. TestU has gone a step further, charging individual schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools Search for the Best Test | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

...affection and, in 1956, Travers was awarded the Legion's highest honor for her courage at Bir Hakeim. The book winds to a melancholy close, describing Travers' tepid marriage to a fellow Legionnaire and her move from Indochina back to France. The story moves along at a mostly brisk pace as Travers offers the razor-sharp observations of an outsider coupled with the collegial pride of a fellow soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love and Adventure | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

ShippingSupply.com now does a brisk business in bubble wrap, mailers, shipping tubes and plastic-foam peanuts. It has expanded twice and currently occupies 7,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space. Young has a staff of eight, including her husband, who quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Own Bubble Economy | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...produces 70% of the world's wind-generated energy, with Germany, Spain and Denmark leading. The Netherlands will soon be getting into the game in a big way, building one of the world's largest wind farms some 8 km offshore, a remote location that can take advantage of brisk sea breezes while keeping the noisy mills out of human earshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Climate of Despair | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...about 15 gigawatts of energy, which is the equivalent of 15 coal-fired power plants. The Netherlands will soon be getting into the game in a big way, building one of the world's largest wind farms five miles offshore, a remote location that can take advantage of brisk sea breezes while keeping the sometimes noisy mills out of human earshot. Similar wind farms built in a place like North Dakota could generate not just energy but profits. Farmers earn $50 an acre from wheat, but could reap $2,000 an acre selling wind-generated power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: A Climate Of Despair | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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