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...computer game alone can cure adolescent financial ignorance. Some curriculum experts wonder why high schools are still teaching algebra, trigonometry and calculus but not the financial skills their students will need to survive in the real world, such as how to fill out tax forms, compare interest rates or calculate the return on an investment. "More schools need to offer money-management classes," says Lewis Mandell, a finance professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo who oversaw the JumpStart research. "The curriculum has to be made relevant to their lives...
...never been able to swallow the seizure medication. He answered, typing, she says, that "he thought that if he didn?t take the pills, maybe he would die." The Rajapatiranas shared this thought from Chandima (though to be honest, I didn?t witness him typing it): "FC doesn?t cure you, but it gives you a reason to live...
...promoting and protecting their agenda that they fail to fulfill their role in the truthful representation of Christ. Etta Albright Cresson, Pennsylvania, U.S. Your article on Opus Dei made plain the dangers of fanaticism and extremism within religious thought. God wants us to hate neither others nor ourselves. The cure for evil must come from God's transformation in us, not from flogging ourselves or vainly trying to impose our ways on others. Ken Broeckel Escondido, California, U.S. time's report on Opus Dei was essentially correct and fair, but the repeated references to the society as "secret" and "secretive...
Though noble in its intent, the Florida plan is an ill-conceived attempt to apply a simple, cheap, and ultimately harmful, medication to cure an epidemic. If Florida, or any state for that matter, is serious about improving public education, it should stop playing with fire by rejecting high school majors and instead get out its checkbook...
...Barnes and Noble shelves each fall, these works of fiction sell as spiritual companions of sorts—comprehensive accounts of day-to-day pre-college life that are more satisfying and inspiring than being bluntly told to study for your SAT-IIs and get going on that cure for cancer (or, novel, as the case may be). SARAH CHARRON New York, N.Y. April...