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Joining Mensa has never been easier!
We know what you’re thinking. “How do I join?”, right?
Maybe, “I’m not sure that I’ll qualify.” or “I never made good grades in school.”
The truth of the matter is that, in the U.S. alone, more than six million people qualify for membership — that’s really one person in every 50. Most don’t realize that they qualify and haven’t considered membership. You’ve at least considered membership, or you wouldn’t be reading this now.
So how do you join? It’s easy. You can become a member of American Mensa in one of two ways:
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If you’re age 14 or older, you can take a supervised, standardized test in your area with one of our certified member volunteers.
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And anyone can submit evidence of prior testing in the form of scores from a supervised, standardized test like the Stanford Binet, the Miller Analogies Test or the GMAT.
In either case, if you’ve scored in the top 2 percent, you’ll qualify for membership in American Mensa. Then it’s just a matter of paying your annual dues!
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The U.S. Department of State offers internships for students of all levels, including opportunities for:
High School Students
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Graduate and Post-Graduate Students
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US Department of State – US State Department – Secretary Clinton, agncy hd
Facebook Page – look for interactive elements – filled with lots of good info
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http://www.aynrandsociety.org/
Objectivism and the Ayn Rand Society – “Atlas Shrugged” and Fountainhead
Questions or comments may be sent to ars@aynrandsociety.org
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‘Last man standing’ at wake for a toxic town
- Story Highlights
- Former residents of toxic lead-mining town gather to say farewell
- Picher, Oklahoma, is one of oldest, largest most polluted toxic-waste sites in U.S.
- A government program pays people to leave the dangerous area
- Mines leave the surface prone to collapse and stain a local creek orange
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/30/oklahoma.toxic.town/index.html
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Black Adder – Black Adder – accountant? – that came from a joke re-told on the Bob and Tom Show or whatever it was on WGN tonight when I flipped over on a channel surf – okey, dokey – maybe I would need the rest of the words to go with it before the delivery would work – still, it was funny and the talk about punch cards which I had been trying to tell my daughter about yesterday and just as unsuccessfully a couple weeks ago. I don’t think she believes me exactly, that punch cards were used. Apparently there is a museum in Cupertino, Calif. which have old computers, the talk show hosts were describing – I’ll have to take her there and show her . . .
- cricketdiane
And wasn’t the Black Adder, that guy on the BBC show who played smart in the midst of the stupid in the war zone of World War II trenches? I loved that show. Still do, when I can find it.
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