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All the SAT even purports to measure is likely first-year college grades.
(Of course, everything Roberts writes purports to show that Reagan was right and his critics were wrong.)
True, they tend to have the emotional autonomy of 8-year-olds, but they're less of a labor to "read" than ordinary mortals: It's their business--you might say their existential orientation--to communicate their thoughts and feelings in an engaging fashion every millisecond . I mention this because the first thing that struck me about the much-hyped satirical comedy EdTV , which purports to show the effect of TV cameras brought into the homes of real people, is that almost no one on-screen seems ever to have met a real (i.e.
The Getty Conservation Institute in California recently sponsored a virtual-reality recreation of Queen Nefertari's tomb in Egypt, which purports to let cyberexplorers "look at the 3200-year-old wall paintings ...
Sometimes you read a preface by a writer who doesn't seem to have absorbed the book he purports to be introducing.