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Silná bouře se ve čtvrtek v podvečer prohnala kromě jiných i Moravskou Novou Vsí na Břeclavsku. Poškozené jsou podle starosty Marka Košuta snad stovky domů, v místě jsou převrácené vozy včetně kamionu. "Vypadá to tu, jako kdyby tady přešla fronta," řekl starosta Košut ČTK. Česko ve čtvrtek večer už zase bičují silné bouřky, ke kterým se přidalo i krupobití a na Hodonínsku dokonce i tornádo. Problémy jsou napříč republikou.

Paul: a lot of people would say the merit system isn't fair because the tests aren't fair. do you agree with that? does this show even more that the test's unfair? >> they're not perfectly fair, no. but we do know that things like the s. a.t. do a decent job of predicting whether a child will, in fact, make it through college. so they have a very good track record in that sense. paul: what about the universities, kate, here. are they the victims as some of them are saying, or are they at least aiding and abetting in some -- not in the legal sense, but just in the way they go about their busine...

Wealthy media executive pay to have her son presented as a talented pole-vault her and her daughter as a tennis recruit. the founder of the food and beverage company allegedly paid 125,000 to have a talented test-taker take the s.a.t. and act for their daughter to get into duke. one wealthy lawyer paid $75,000 for a proctor to correct his daughter's answers. a casino operator paid hundreds of thousands to fabricate basketball credentials on his daughter's behalf. felicity huffman of duster housewives paid to have her daughter's s.a.t. test answers secretly corrected. dozens of parents funneled...

They say if you're from iowa you take the act, you're from the northeast you take the s.a.t. apparently the act has been surging in its popularity. it surpassed that more people took the act than the s.a.t. last year. what are they doing the s.a.t. isn't doing and is it a better predictor? >> you're right. the myth was everybody in the middle of the country took the act and everybody on the left or the right took the s.a.t. the truth is any college is going to accept you based on your act or s.a.t. scores. when we start to think about it five years ago the number of test takers taking the s.a....

Encourage them to apply. organizations like the college board are going to work with colleges to make it easier for students to apply to more schools for free. i know sometimes for those of you in the university administrations the perception may be that, you know, $100 application fees is not a big deal. but for a lot of these students that's enough of a barrier that they just don't end up applying. number three, we know that when it comes to college advising and preparing for tests like the a.c.t. and the s.a.t., low income kids are not on a level playing field. you know, we call these stand...