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...perfect tool. As a 10th-grader, Todd Rosenbaum, now a junior at the University of Virginia, took a biology course that met just twice a week and offered no labs, but he crammed so successfully for the AP exam that he earned a 5 (tops on AP's 5-point scale). That score allowed the high school valedictorian to skip introductory biology at the university, but he found himself woefully unprepared for an upper-level course. "Pretty much as soon as I got in, I realized that there was no way I'd survive," says Rosenbaum. He withdrew from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Smart Is AP? | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

ZOLLARS There's been continuous upward pressure on wages and benefits. Our average driver makes $70,000 a year and has good benefits. Wages are going up 5% a year for union drivers and twice that fast on the nonunion side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO Speaks: Road Warrior | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...premium for a hybrid, in this case $3,500 more than for a regular Escape, which looks nearly identical. In exchange, you get gas mileage that is nearly twice as good in the city (36 m.p.g. vs. 20 m.p.g.) and 6 m.p.g. better on the highway. And for now, you get a $1,500 tax write-off from Uncle Sam. Do the math, and you quickly realize that you still won't save money overall with a hybrid. But you will spend less time at the pump and drive the most fuel-efficient SUV in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: A Gas-Sipping SUV | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...LADENS STILL SUPPORT OR SYMPATHIZE WITH OSAMA? I don't think so. What he has done hurts the family. Financially, if somebody wants to work with you, they think twice. I have been investigated for the past three years because of that. Should ever anybody help him, that person will be responsible for his actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Yeslam Bin Ladin | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...Daily wage for opium laborers in Afghanistan, twice the average daily pay for unskilled labor in that country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 8, 2004 | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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