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With the widespread popular support of the space program in the 1960’s, NASA was able to send men to the moon. Today, support can lead to better things: private citizens traveling to orbiting “hotels” and the settlement of the Moon and Mars. The general public is unconcerned with space exploration because the threat of Soviet domination of space is no longer an issue. As a result, new endeavors seem less urgent, but the public is mistaken...
...controversial court settlement last March forced the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to remove the notation from graduate exam reports that alerted admissions officers to special test conditions including untimed testing due to learning disabilities...
...result of the settlement, the College Board, which owns the SAT, must also review its own SAT score reports. Without the notations, colleges will have no way to distinguish between timed and untimed exams-leaving some Harvard administrators wary of potential abuses of the testing process...
...court settlement in the ETS case had no direct impact on the SAT exam, which is only administered by ETS but is owned and developed by the College Board. Nonetheless, the College Board was asked to form a panel to study the issues of flagged scores and untimed testing...
...Motion Picture and Television Producers) are set to expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn (so to speak) of television and film in the United States. If their contracts expire before a settlement is reached, the unions will go on strike—leaving movie theaters nationwide in the lurch and turning the television test pattern into the latest ingenue...