The city of Chicago is today selecting firefighters randomly from a huge (around 18, 000) list of applicants who had passed a test-a test that 77% of test-takers passed.
Last year it launched a beta-test of a news aggregating service called Google News.
Seems like a simple lesson (the first few years of your career constitute an eight-hour-a-day test, FYI), but the hilariously haughty and utterly off-base email from a former lifeguard to his old boss published by Deadspin shows that not all young ladder climbers have grasped this logic.
It also capped India's first series win away from home since they defeated Sri Lanka 1-0 in a three-Test series in 1993.
Broad, though, rejected the suggestion that England's heavy winter schedule in Australia before the World Cup, which featured a five-Test Ashes series, seven one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games over a three-month period, was to blame for their injury problems.
The original plan was for a two-and-a-half-minute test tomorrow, cut last week to the 30-second length.
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The victory for an inexperienced Wales side - shorn of their Lions stars and players from the Dragons - was their first match of a two-Test summer tour than concludes against the USA in Chicago next Saturday.
England play a four-Test series in the West Indies, beginning in Jamaica on 4 February, before a home series - against Sri Lanka or West Indies - and then the Ashes later in the summer.
The databases can--in a single day--test one disease-causing protein against a trillion chemical compounds and rank which ones are most likely to latch onto the protein and gum up its works.
While some creeped-out viewers complained that he looked like a crash-test dummy, others were reassured.
Permitting the non-disclosure of a pivotal risk factor, such as a genetic-test result, would undermine one of the fundamentals of insurance.
Each took a battery of psychological surveys, including a three-hour interview and a 900-question test.
Italy hit back in similar fashion through Bergamasco - not regarded as a front-line Test goalkicker - straight after the restart when Nick Easter was penalised for not releasing after making a tackle, before a remarkable Wilkinson run came to an end.
The 25-year-old will be an integral part of the Great Britain side which will play the Kiwis in a three-Test series later in November.
As a parent of a 15-year-old who goes to Stuyvesant, a test-in public high school with a rigorous curriculum and frequent tests, I am ambivalent about the notion that schools across the country would adopt yet more tests.
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The bits even get through the noise--a test older power-line schemes often failed.
Beginning in late February, INSEAD will offer an alternate exam, created in-house with help from Prep-Zone, a test-prep company founded by two INSEAD alums.
Anderson produced a stunning display to claim a Test-best 6-42 at Trent Bridge as New Zealand closed day two of the final Test 268 behind England at 96-6.
It must scale down this "mad merry-go-round" that players find themselves in: a shallow two-Test series with seven ODIs and a few Twenty20 games thrown in, for example.
He was also banned from driving for three years and must take a re-test.
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Atlanta Public Schools, jolted by a state-test cheating scandal this year, made the most improvement.
Understand: He is not talking about growing a biological person in a test-tube and requiring him to be Dad.
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Pakistan are preparing for a three-Test tour of Australia and depart this weekend.
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But a means-test is no substitute for sorting out overlapping benefits and confining payments to people who are genuinely disabled.
Pakistan will fly to New Zealand in November for a three-Test tour.
The two sides drew a four-Test series in Pakistan in 1989-90.
In 2001, with Graham Henry leading the Lions in Australia, caretaker coach Lynn Howells took a development team on a two-Test trip to Japan.
The zone is seen as a litmus-test of relations between the two countries, and analysts consider such an extended shut-down to be a considerable setback.
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South Africa will next tour Australia for a three-Test series starting in November, while England will go to the sub-continent to take on India again.
Australia will next start a three-Test series against Sri Lanka in Ponting's home state of Tasmania on December 14 -- five days before his 38th birthday.
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