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U.S. holiday sales seen slowest since 2001 -- ICSC (Reuters) Posted: 27 Aug 2008 04:04 PM CDT Reuters - U.S. holiday sales are expected to grow at the slowest rate since 2001 as consumers pull back spending in a weak economy, according to a survey by the International Council of Shopping Centers.

SAT Scores Hold Steady for Class of '08 (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 27 Aug 2008 03:50 PM CDT U.S. News & World Report - Average scores on the reading, math, and writing sections of the SAT test held steady for the second consecutive year, according to a new report by the College Board on the high school class of 2008. But for critics of standardized testing, the bigger story drawn from the data is the slight decline in student participation since a longer, more expensive version of the SAT test was introduced in 2006.

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