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...from carnage. In an essay last year, then Secretary of Defense William Perry argued for "defense in an age of hope"--a military policy based on the idea that peace is sustainable, perhaps less reliable than the sun but more constant than the weather. Around the world the ineluctable algebra of economic and political liberalization (less war = more money) is catching on. At the start of 1997, none of the planet's 179 nations was shooting at another...
...surprise I started to do very well in algebra in ninth grade.... Algebra sparked my intellectual interests because I liked solving problems," Ramos says. "My algebra teacher started praising me, and that was a change from other teachers who used to put me down...
...took this success in algebra and his affinity for mathematics and the sciences to James Monroe High School, a public school in the South Bronx...
...sergeant at another recruiting station repeatedly harassed a 16-year-old high school freshman. At one point, the investigator concluded, he "grabbed" her and made her so upset she missed a quarter of her classes, contributing to a failing grade in algebra. "The Army image is now tainted in one of the more productive schools," said the investigator. "It could take years for the damage to disappear...
...course that I was describing would assume nothing much more than high school algebra, so part of the course would be developing some quantitative skills," he says...