Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major gap in his resume: he has not been part of an NBA championship team. Jordan is painfully aware that the Los Angeles Lakers' Magic Johnson and the Boston Celtics' Larry Bird have eight crowns between them. He has become increasingly outspoken on the Bulls' need to attract a competitive core of players. For the first time in his basketball career, frustration has led him this season to criticize his teammates' play publicly. Ironically, the premium that the Bulls pay for Jordan's services inhibits the club from acquiring other high-quality, and high-priced, talent. Jordan recently signed...
...classes, which are separate from the ordinary high school science curriculum, tend to attract curious students and science buffs. Still, it is often an uphill battle to disabuse kids of fallacies that have become ingrained even by age 17. "You want to defend your old misconceptions, but you can't," says Matthew Liebman, a STAR student at Massachusetts' Framingham North High School. Despite the difficulties, preliminary studies by Shapiro's team suggest that STAR students have a better grasp of basic scientific concepts and mathematics than students in ordinary courses. "We're definitely making headway and in directions we hadn...
...should organize projects to show that forests can be used without being obliterated. If trees are cut selectively, forests can yield profits and survive to produce more money in the future. Another way to harvest cash from forests and other habitats is to set up tours and safaris to attract animal lovers and photography buffs. Long a moneymaker in Africa and the Galapagos Islands, this "ecotourism" is spreading to such places as Costa Rica...
...divided among three equally funded zones, with 14,000 students apiece. Within each zone, parents would be allowed to choose a particular school for their child, and pupils would be assigned to available spots in a way that preserved each school's racial balance. Facilities that failed to attract enough students would be phased out. Says the plan's co-author, Charles Willie of Harvard: "We've learned that the emphasis has to be on education rather than mixing and matching students...
...reason is largely economic. Parents and students think they will get a higher return on their $16,000-plus annual investment from a brand-name institution such as Yale, Caltech or the University of Chicago than from a lesser-known school. But these same colleges are trying to attract students from diverse ethnic, racial, geographic and economic backgrounds, making the admissions hurdle still higher for the majority of white middle-class applicants. One measure of the competitiveness: last year the University of Pennsylvania rejected 35% of those who scored an extraordinary 1,400 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...