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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...quiz. Name and locate the following: Hekla, Monrovia, Manitoba and Orinoco. Now for a math problem: If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is the worth at 50[cents] a bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare? (Hint: a bushel of wheat weighs 60 lbs. You're on your own for tare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Does Texas Make The Grade? | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...quiz. Name and locate the following: Hecla, Monrovia, Manitoba and Orinoco. Now for a math problem: If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is the worth at 50? a bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare? (Hint: a bushel of wheat is 60 lbs. You're on your own for tare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Texas Make the Grade? | 9/3/2000 | See Source »

...Even on the 1895 exam, a student who failed could re-take the test a year later. But there's one thing he was sure to know, living in Kansas: tare is the weed normally harvested along with wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Texas Make the Grade? | 9/3/2000 | See Source »

...game, and so was failure. But today's Americans might take Fitzgerald's jeremiad as a compliment: there are no second acts because we prolong the first act forever; we work and play hard to extend adolescence for another 40, 50 years. It's hard work, consuming all that wheat germ and Viagra, but it's worth it to stay tan, teen and terrific. Besides, the alternative is so nonattractive. To be old in America is almost as uncool as being poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Clint Does It the Old Way | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...through the hype, and you're looking at a potpourri of the same active ingredients. There are antioxidants for preventing skin damage from exposure to the sun, copper peptides for stimulating skin repair and hydroxy acids for sloughing off layers of dead skin. Wheat germ and barley extracts often serve as natural moisture barriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Lift In A Jar? | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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