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...gunned down in broad daylight on the afternoon of June 8, while he waited at a bus stop on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Walden Street. According to police, Scott, the father of a five-year-old girl, was standing in front of the KFC and Taco Bell located near Porter Square when he was approached by a male assailant who allegedly produced a handgun and opened fire. Scott suffered four fatal shots to the torso...
...Some schools simply don't have as many resources and good teachers as others. Thu-Trang La, who took the AP calculus class at Bell last year, struggled with the questions on the AP exam that required the use of a graphing calculator in part, she says, because she hadn't learned how to use one in class. But last year when she repeated calculus at George Mason University in Virginia, she passed...
...material so that no child is left behind. The result: AP classes that vary as widely in rigor as low-fat foods do in calories. At the selective Wilson Senior High School in Washington, each AP English class read at least 10 novels this year, but those at Bell Multicultural, in which about 70% of students speak English as a second language, read only four. Agnes Akwarandu, the AP English teacher at Bell, explains that "because of their language skills, it's not easy for them" to read many books quickly. Last year, only 1 out of 14 kids...
...their recent successes, Western Union execs seldom forget the firm's Telex debacle, and some remember a much earlier--and bigger--mistake. In 1876 Western Union had the option to buy Alexander Graham Bell's new telephone but dismissed it in an internal memo as a device that "is inherently of no value to us." Bell sold the rights to what is now AT&T. First Data's pending purchase of ATM powerhouse Concord EFS shows that it is determined that Western Union won't get left behind this time. --With reporting by Deborah Edler Brown/Los Angeles, Paul Cuadros/Durham, Cheryl...
...misleading them about why she had sold the stock. Her perfunctory responses to Judge Miriam Cedarbaum's questions (Did she understand the charges? Did she need them read aloud?) were barely audible. But when Cedarbaum asked for a plea, Stewart's response--"Not. Guilty."--rang out like a bell, with the first t enunciated in the clipped diction familiar to anyone who has ever followed her instructions to plunge blanched green beans into a bowl of "ice water...