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...Although the program is being termed a cultural exchange, it flows one way. Tresp and Georgia education officials will fly to Hanover early next month to interview between 20 and 30 German teachers. All have the equivalent of a B.A. in mathematics and an M.A. in education. Says Eloise Barren, math consultant to the Georgia state education department: "Math is a universal language. Trigonometry here is trigonometry there. The only problem is, can they communicate that knowledge?" The chances are good, since the candidates have studied English for an average of nine years. If satisfied, the Georgia contingent is empowered...
...that Georgia's move merely "underscores the fact that teachers' salaries are noncompetitive with industry. We don't need to go outside this country to find bright people to teach math and science." Georgia officials insist they see German teachers as a short-term solution. Says Barren...
Maass says he will celebrate the end of his 36-year Harvard teaching career by buying a few hundred acres of barren California desert and trying to turn the plot into a workable farm, using a new irrigation method he developed. And Maass will be doing more than just homesteading. He plans to conduct two research projects, advise a small number of seniors on their theses, and find time for a season ticket to the Boston Symphony...
...between the neighborhoods and downtown, and split along geographic, racial, and ethnic lines Working class Southie is isolated across the channel and the harbor from the city's skyscrapers. The subway system barely skirts its perimeters, and to reach Southie's center, one must walk for 10 minutes through barren streets, flanked by run-down housing units and abandoned warehouses West Roxbury and communities such as Mattapan and Hyde Park are self-contained mini-cities with little outside interference...
...distant thundering explosions are vaguely reminiscent of the noise that kept residents on edge two years ago as British troops advanced across the barren hills to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina. But these are not the sounds of war. Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...