Word: processions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Crichton's sci-fi is convincingly detailed. He has the cloning process begin not with ground-up fossils (too much DNA deterioration) but with dinosaur blood sucked by mosquito-like insects caught and preserved in amber. As is traditional in such narrations, there is an arrogant technician, who in this case claims that the park's dinosaurs can't breed because all have been sterilized. And as usual there is a relentlessly cheerful p.r. man. He settles the question of what dinosaurs eat; one of the big carnivores eats him. Then things really go wrong. Dinosaurs, it develops, are much...
...process, what was once one of the world's most tightly centralized states continues to fall apart. In the past few weeks, Kazakhstan in Central Asia became the 14th of the 15 republics to declare its sovereignty. A nationalist alliance calling itself the Round Table won 54% of the vote in parliamentary elections in the republic of Georgia on a platform that opposes signing a new treaty of union with the central government. The Ukrainian government last week began distributing coupons to be used for the purchase of various goods, a step toward introducing its own currency. The Belorussian republic...
...society's imbalances, not the exams'. ETS notes that 400 people of varying backgrounds check every SAT question during 10 review stages and eliminate any that are found to be biased. "To say these tests are biased because results vary," says Gary Saretzky, chief of ETS's sensitivity-review process, "is like blaming the thermometer for the fever...
...concern is a major reason why ETS is devoting more of its energies to curriculum development. On tests there may be instant answers, but not in the learning process. It may take years before educators can decide whether Anrig and his colleagues have created new solutions or compounded old problems for America's troubled schools...
Continental was particularly ill-prepared to weather the downturn. The carrier accumulated more than $2 billion in long-term debt in the process of building itself into one of the five largest U.S. carriers. Rival carrier Delta confirmed last week that it may buy some of Continental's assets. At TWA, market share has slipped from about 10% in 1985 to 8% currently. Since TWA boss Carl Icahn failed to move quickly enough to replace his aging aircraft, the airline is stuck with a fleet that is particularly thirsty and costly. New Boeing and McDonnell Douglas passenger jets...