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...FRONT HALL OF THE DRISCOLL elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts, a large chart displays the names of families that have contributed to a $30,000 fund-raising drive. Though the campaign has stirred controversy in this middle-class community, the participating parents are unapologetic. As they see it, their kids need classroom computers; the public school has no budget for such amenities. So parents are digging into their own pockets to purchase 26 Apple computers by this fall. True, the Driscoll students will then have an advantage over those who attend Brookline's seven other primary schools. But, says Deborah...
REVIEWING YOUR CHART "CATALOG OF Terror,'' showing weapons that terrorists could use, I concluded that toxic biological and chemical materials, threatening instant injury and death, pose a far greater risk than radioactive materials. The latter are more difficult to obtain and deliver to a population in a dose strong enough to cause significant injury. If people had more accurate information about the relatively small risk from nuclear radiation, there would be less fear of it, and radiological materials could be removed from your catalog...
Before the electronic system, checkers were all but forced to learn students' names so that they could check them off a huge chart as the students approached...
...actors who starred in that movie did not become the so-called Brat Pack until after the movie was made and the media had labeled them as such. I did not fully realize the harm of this term until I read your article on new young stars, with its chart updating the careers of the stars of St. Elmo's Fire. What I don't like is that the media is once again trying to label actors. Call them Generation X-Cellent now, so that in 10 years you can write the story of what ever happened to those...
Senior Jamie Ames will also be an integral cog in the Crimson offensive machine, bringing his 34 points from last season--good enough for third on the Crimson scoring chart--into this...