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Snow, sleet covers southern states
Schools were closed, flights were canceled and thousands of homes and businesses were without power Wednesday as a storm swept eastward out of the Plains spreading layers of snow and ice from the Texas Panhandle to Virginia.
Parts of Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, the western Carolinas, southwestern Virginia and much of northeast Arkansas were covered in snow, sleet and freezing rain. The storm also knocked out power in over 50,000 homes and businesses across the area.
Nearly a foot of snow had piled up in the Oklahoma Panhandle by midday Wednesday. Trees and power lines were coated with ice across the state. Another snowfall may result in up to 10 inches along the mountains in Virginia and West Virginia overnight.
Creator of SAT dies at the age 97
Henry Chauncey, the man who is credited with turning the SAT into an admission standard used by thousands of colleges and universities, died Tuesday at his home in Shelburne, Vt., at age 97.
Chauncey is responsible for establishing the Educational Testing Service to administer the SAT. He believed that a student's enrollment to one of the nation's colleges should be decided through merit, rather than through family connections.
He was a former assistant dean at Harvard University. Chauncey started at the Princeton, N.J.-based ETS in 1947 and served as its president until 1970. He was also a director of the New York-based College Board, the organization that sponsors the SAT.
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