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...behind-the-scenes look at how the Clinton Administration insulated itself from the controversial drug-approval process, go to time.com
Contrary to the impression given by your story "Rethinking the Big Test: No SAT Scores Required" [EDUCATION, Sept. 11], the nation's four-year colleges and universities are neither eliminating nor reducing SAT requirements as an element in their admissions process. The College Board's annual Survey of Colleges shows that in 1999, 83% of the U.S.'s 1,800 four-year colleges considered test scores in admissions, a percentage that has remained relatively constant for 10 years. The stable use of test scores by four-year institutions remains unaffected by the decision over the past three decades...
...Since conception occurs about 14 days after a menstrual cycle begins, they actually have 35 days from the time they miss their period to suspect they are pregnant, decide to abort and set up the appointments. (Home-pregnancy tests will help.) But once they do, many women find the process oddly comforting. Although they expel the fetus, all they see is a bloody mass that's unrecognizable. The nausea passes soon after the expulsion is over, and they can go on with their lives...
Avoiding war rather than attaining peace is about the best the U.S. can hope to achieve in the Middle East right now. Washington appears to have walked Prime Minister Ehud Barak back from the brink after the Israeli leader had vowed to abandon the peace process unless violence in Palestinian territories had abated by Monday evening. Barak on Monday night announced an extension of his ultimatum and also agreed to attend a regional peace summit if President Clinton manages to convene...
...Israel and the Palestinians are unlikely formally pronounce the peace process dead just yet - if for no other reason than because the leaders on both sides have staked their entire political fortunes on it. Then again, it's been the final phase of the peace process that has left both leaders teetering badly, with the momentum in Israeli politics swinging solidly behind the hawkish opposition, while Arafat's diminished authority in the face of challenges by Islamic militants and his own rank-and-file has never been more obvious. Neither man can easily afford to be seen to be making...