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...given to 400 students in New York City in October 1999. James Sumner, dean of admissions at 1,400-pupil Grinnell College in Iowa, is hoping a test like Bial's will help identify strong minority candidates the college might miss in its traditional SAT-and-ACT-based selection process. This year Grinnell accepted two minority students who participated in the Bial-Dale test. The next step for the research is to track whether the participants stay in school and how much they contribute to the campus environment. If the test does predict with any accuracy a student's persistence...
Museveni waves away the barbs and the electoral threats posed by his rivals. "I'm not bothered by Besigye," he says. "It's good to have these kinds of people. They bring up issues that should be addressed. The election has been a good cleansing process." And then Museveni proceeds to get a few things off his chest. "Besigye is suffering from AIDS," he says, a remark he has delivered a number of times on the stump. "And Winnie is just a nasty lady." Besigye refuses to address that particular accusation. (He and Byanyima have a son Anselm, born...
...comedy hasn't disappeared so much as migrated to hourlong shows such as Ed, Gilmore Girls, the resurgent Saturday Night Live, the plethora of late-night comics, and even reality shows like Survivor and dramas like The West Wing. The true culprit may be an overly cautious development process. "Networks give writers development deals and then interfere with development," says Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, who last fall debuted the discomfitingly funny, semi-improvisational Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. "Ultimately, anything not in their formula scares them." That formula--set-up, joke, canned laughter, repeat--might as well...
...crash was (22.6% on the Dow in a day), we were in a new bull market the next morning. Indeed, the '87 "buying opportunity" had much to do with fostering a buy-on-dips mentality that prevailed through the '90s. That mentality is in the process of getting crushed. We've moved from buying dips to just holding on. What comes next is "'Omigod, the stock market is risky,'" which is when people get out, says Nicholas Sargen, strategist at J.P. Morgan Private Client. That level of despair would probably signal a bottom. The theory is that when everyone...
...last week's issue of Ergonomics in Design. It was prepared by researchers who took the trouble to test that "easy as 1, 2, 3" blood-sugar meter, which is supposed to let diabetes patients quickly check their blood-sugar levels. But what was advertised as a three-step process (prick your finger, squeeze a drop of blood on the test strip, wait for results) grew to 52 substeps by the time they got the thing working properly...