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...August (Queen Latifah), who runs the bee farm, is the matriarch of the clan, beaming wisdom and common sense to a child voracious for any human touch. May (Brit actress Sophie Okonedo) has long been in mourning for her dead twin sister April. Her emotions are deep and constantly near the surface; she is given to weeping and keening when she sees the pain of others. June (Alicia Keys), a teacher, is the no-nonsense one. With her high forehead, Afro coiffure and commanding hauteur, she is a preview of militant black women like Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis...
...investigator Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv)--a geek-gorgeous half-Mulder, half-Scully figure--tracks down a case a week, assisted by recently de-institutionalized genius Walter Bishop (John Noble), whose Cold War research may be connected to The Pattern, and his sarcastic son Peter (Joshua Jackson). The common thread in most of the cases: bioscience gone evil...
Dublin, Ireland Inside a black-and-white half-timbered building in central Dublin late last month, some 9,000 people - from plumbers to bankers - gathered with a common purpose: finding a new job. Almost all "were skilled, professional people," says Stephen McLarnon, who runs the firm that put on the event, and they were "looking to make a committed move." And a long-distance one. At the Down Under Expo, a forum for recruitment agencies and immigration officials, the prize for job hunters was a new start, not in Ireland, but in Australia or New Zealand...
Last week, Google launched the latest e-mail innovation sure to have the boys over at Yahoo! shaking their heads in shame: Mail Goggles. According to the Gmail blog, Mail Goggles were designed to help prevent users from sending those all-too-common “what the hell was I thinking?” e-mails that seemed so sensible at the time...
...this harmful contempt for math has produced an educational culture that lacks both the enthusiasm and foundational support to produce proficient math students. Given the shortcomings of American math education, a concerted effort must be made to address the dearth of appreciation for math and invert the all too common declarations of “I hate math!” This cultural malaise remains specifically an American problem. According to a study published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, the United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, particularly among those...