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Michael Schiavo refuses to speak to the press, but his lawyer George Felos dismisses the Schindlers' accusations: "Not only are they totally false, they are malicious." He rejects the notion that Terri could recover with therapy. The Florida court agreed with him last year after three of five doctors who examined Terri found her to be in a vegetative state. Only the two doctors chosen by the Schindlers disagreed. "She is in a classic permanent vegetative state," says neurologist Ronald Cranford, an expert on the condition at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Cranford examined Terri...
...insistence, the goal of influencing school curriculums has become the overriding preoccupation of the new test's developers. Caperton speaks with less enthusiasm about the traditional mission of the SAT: to help colleges predict how well applicants will do if they are admitted. To be sure, Caperton believes the notion (actually, he's staking his career on it) that the SAT can both improve high schools and still remain useful to colleges as a predictor. But the first goal is a political aim; the second, a psychometric one. And Caperton has surrounded the New SAT with dozens of educators...
...test. The SAT IIs are a battery of achievement tests the College Board offers in 18 subjects, including physics and Korean. Aptitude tests are harder to define. Many people seem to think of aptitude exams in general--and the old (or current) SAT in particular--as IQ tests, a notion subtly promulgated by Nicholas Lemann, the new dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, in his influential anti-SAT book, The Big Test (1999). Writing about early versions of the SAT, Lemann points out that "the bulk of the test was devoted to word familiarity, the eternal staple...
...counting E!) and a pay-per-view channel available only to DirecTV’s 11.5 million American subscribers, and it’s clear that gays are not, in fact, taking television audiences hostage. Beyond being patently absurd, the “too gay” notion is also offensive: the equation of homosexuality with sex and violence, as a reality to be taken only in small doses, is ignorant and hurtful...
...opinion, the argument that NFL overtime needs to be changed is mostly intuitive, just like “small ball” wins games in baseball or the notion of “clutch” hitting. Neither is likely true—all the statistics say both prevailing thoughts are myths. But every year, analysts and fans alike continuously praise “manufacturing” runs just as they groan about the unjustness of a coin toss...