Word: reportable
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...unusually high number of insurance claims for the models. (This year, according to a State Farm document examined by TIME, the number of cases has been even higher, with 12 appearing in the first four months alone.) In March, though, 30 to 40 more complaints flooded in after a report on tread-separation accidents aired on Houston TV station KHOU...
...short-term spikes in test scores, but that later on kids tend to forget much of what they've crammed. "Instead of reading novels, kids are skimming three-paragraph passages for key words," says Linda McNeil, an education professor at Rice University, who this year co-authored a report critical of the Texas exam for Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Texas' lackluster performance on other national exams bolsters her case. Even as TAAS scores have skyrocketed, those on the SAT have lagged. According to figures released last week by the College Board, the average math SAT score for Texas...
...white authorities to be assimilated, as orphans, into white society. The members of this "stolen generation" were not told their parents' names, and most would never see their mothers again. This odious experiment was not abandoned until 1970 and did not become general public knowledge until 1997, when a report on it, "Bringing Them Home," by Sir Ronald Wilson, caused national outrage...
...moment, the scientists report, the robotyke has the brainpower of bacteria: "We hope to get up to insect level in a couple of years." Meantime, in another part of the forest, the human genome project is nearly complete. Peering into the future, one dimly discerns a convergence. Here are the projected patterns...
...meets, sending data out over the Web (at 50 m, 141 beats/min., 18.3 m.p.h.). And at michaeljohnson.org, he addresses a perceived need for "unfiltered, uncensored information from me. The fans get more than enough through you guys." While he won't be wearing the gizmos at Sydney, he will report in. "I'll do daily updates," he says. "I'll be wired through...