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...through schoolwork, reading, doing crosswords, soaking up the arts, debating politics, whatever. These aren't inborn traits but honed competencies. Whereas early psychometricians, many of them racist, propagated what Lemann calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone believes the SAT or even pure [IQ] tests are--or have ever been--a pure measure of intelligence," says Zwick, the former SAT Committee chair...
...story is the kind publicists love. The New Zealand-born Brit records a track in his bedroom, in his underwear, in anonymity. He sends the track to radio stations, and a London-based DJ picks it up for his gigs. Gotta Get Thru This, the single, "was raw, it was original-sounding, it was very edgy and it had a lot of impact," says DJ EZ, who includes it on one of his popular Pure Garage compilations in 2001. Then the doors swing open: to a big record deal and chart success in the U.K. and U.S., where Bedingfield...
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...banana SERVING 1/2 cup of blueberries SERVING 3/4 cup of orange juice SERVING 1 medium apple SERVING 1/2 cup of red, green, orange or yellow pepper SERVING 1/2 cup of steamed broccoli SERVING 6 oz. glass of tomato juice SERVING A handful of green beans (1/2 cup) SERVING 2 raw scallions...
Bruce Springsteen rubbed some men in blue raw at his tour-closing concerts at New York City's Shea Stadium. It was when he performed American Skin (41 Shots), his song about the 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder...