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Seniors today are undermined by admirable traits. Says Bruce Gebhardt, who heads the FBI office in Phoenix, Ariz.: "They grew up in a more polite age, and they can't hang up the phone." Or slam a door in a con artist's face. Many are trusting to a fault: they cannot believe that well-dressed, well-spoken, solicitous young men can be ripping them...
...Whole math," says molecular biologist Michael McKeown, "means less material covered in less depth with less rigor." Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from the front. Not long ago, Jennings watched her daughter Sarah, a straight-A algebra student, reach for a calculator to find 10% of 470. "It made my blood boil," says Jennings. In response, she and other parents pressured the school district to offer traditional math...
...competes with its former children, some of the regional operating companies, a.k.a. the Baby Bells, are no longer sharing their database of phone numbers with Ma Bell. The upshot is that AT&T has assembled replacement services consisting of one subcontractor, Excell Agent Services in Phoenix, Ariz.; two of its own regional centers; and a few stray agreements with Baby Bells. Thus when you're in, say, Oregon calling to find a Florida number, your long-distance information operator is now likely to be in Phoenix; Scranton, Pa.; or Augusta, Ga. (MCI and Sprint still have agreements with the Bells...
CHARGED. AMORET POWELL, 24; with first-degree murder, after her heroin-laced breast milk allegedly led to her seven-week-old daughter's death from oxygen deprivation; in Tucson, Ariz. The baby's father was also charged...
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