* WINNERS: Students. They're doing better on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. So much better, in fact, that educators say the performance by the class of '93 may signal the end of a testing slump that has lasted 25 years.

LOSERS: Teachers. A new study from the National Science Foundation finds that science teachers tend to have less confidence in their own abilities than do teachers of other subjects. The study also finds that most science and mathematics courses tend to stress dull memorization rather than higher order thinking.* WINNERS: Cities with big league baseball teams - and married couples who live in those communities. Researchers at the University of Denver report that cities with major league baseball teams have a 23 percent lower divorce rate than cities without such teams.

LOSER: The widely held notion that men worry about their jobs while women worry about the home. Wrong! A study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health finds that for men the physical symptoms of stress are more often caused by concerns about their children than by the rigors of their jobs. Though women share these parental concerns, they are more often affected by on-the-job stress.

* WINNERS: The well-educated. Besides earning more, it seems they also live longer. That's the word from the National Center for Health Statistics. The surprise is that the presumably better health care and easier access to it by the more educated and highly paid don't account for the improved longevity. The difference apparently lies in incorporating health habits into daily life. Anyway, increased longevity: another reason to stay in school.

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LOSERS: Lawyers. Not only are they unhappy with the spate of jokes about them, they're also displeased with their jobs. The Wall Street Journal cites an informal poll by California Lawyer magazine in which 70 percent of the lawyers surveyed said they would start a new career if they could. And that's no laughing matter.

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