Word: alberts
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...Albert Casis swerves his tricycle taxi to a stop just before the floodwater, lapping over a speed bump in the road. He knows the mud-colored water could be contaminated with a potentially deadly rat-borne disease that is still threatening communities in and around Manila a month after tropical storm Ketsana hit the Philippines' capital. "I saw the warnings on TV," says the lanky 19-year-old, watching pedestrians wade through the knee-high water covering part of a road in the capital's Pasig district, one of the worst flood-hit areas...
...film is worth seeking out, and not just because of Sheen's extraordinary performance. In his research, Sheen discovered that Clough loved Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, the 1960 Karel Reisz film, starring Albert Finney, about a young working-class iconoclast and self-mythologizer - just like Clough. The Damned United is an homage to films of the British new wave - Saturday Night, A Kind of Loving - in the way that it exposes how Britain's old class divisions stunted countless lives. Clough and Revie were intelligent men for whom soccer promised a release from a life down...
...century, no truths have been more bizarre, or more infamously difficult to conceptualize, than those of quantum mechanics. Its predictions have been verified to an accuracy that far exceeds any other physical theory ever developed, and yet, some of the greatest thinkers ever to have lived—even Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, pioneers of the theory—had difficulty accepting the phenomenal implications of interpreting the theory’s mathematical formalism. Richard Feynman, the charismatic second generation quantum physicist, famously quipped, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum...
Four Chicago teens have been arrested in the murder of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old who was beaten to death on Sept. 24 after he stumbled onto a brawl between rival gangs on his way home from school. The attack, captured by a cell-phone camera, has ignited outrage in a city that witnessed the murders of 34 public-school students last year...
...egalitarian ideals regarding education - that students be taught that they're equal citizens regardless of their background and they should accept the responsibilities that go along with equality under the law. "We teach students, educate them and raise them in school, but we don't pay them," says Albert-Jean Mougin, vice-president of the union representing teachers at middle schools and high schools. "We mustn't turn education into a commodity, nor turn accepting responsibilities into transactions between students and educators...