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...Jersey institute also has a small permanent faculty who work alongside the institute's approximately 180 visiting scholars, which Scott said sets it apart from the new Radcliffe Institute. Permanent faculty members receive a lifetime appointment at the institute, and stay for an estimated 20 to 30 years. Faculty members, whose ranks have included Albert Einstein, tend to be world-renowned scholars in their fields...
...magnifying glass on gender would set the Radcliffe Institute apart from other centers of advanced study. Neil J. Smelser, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif. said such a focus would provide the new school with an inherently "different character" from his school...
Secondly, vouchers are given out by lotteries which target "at-risk" students (the poor and disadvantaged whose schools are falling apart) and give them the opportunity for a better education. In no way do they take the best students from poor schools and leave the rest behind. Instead, public schools will now have be competitive-meaning they will have to improve their commitment to education...
...yellow and fins inspired by an Art Deco pin. Fine, but would it fly? "Part of my phony-baloney research was to watch a lot of educational TV," says Chiang. "But this is film reality, not reality. Put my plane in a wind tunnel and it would fall apart...
...case is likely to be over soon, and he will begin his sentence. He's trying to stay optimistic, stay Tom. He writes friends joking letters--he says he tells the days apart by watching a different daily parade of freaks on Jerry Springer. But lately he has been housed in a jail dorm with depressing and depressed people, folks on medication and not all there. It can be harrowing...