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...quarantine on Tuesday, then had modest workouts at Churchill. Most handicappers have dismissed the mysterious men from the East, but China Visit's eye-catching win in the March 25 UAE Derby (where he returned $38 for a $2 ticket) has longshot-happy railbirds thinking of a triple-digit payout...
Math education reformers have a prescription for raising the mathematical knowledge of schoolchildren. Do not teach the standard algorithms of arithmetic, such as long addition and multiplication, they say; let the children find their own methods for adding and multiplying two-digit numbers, and for larger numbers, let them use calculators. One determined reformer puts it decisively: "It's time to acknowledge that continuing to teach these skills (i.e., pencil-and-paper computational algorithms) to our students is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive and downright dangerous...
...look at venture capital going forward, we don't expect triple digit returns," says Meyer. He says HMC expects in the long term, venture capital will return 10 percent above the rate of inflation...
...possibility of triple digit returns does not come without some substantial risk, however, Meyer says...
During the past five years of double-digit gains in the Dow, enrollment at residential and day camps has swelled by 8% to 10% a year, to an expected record of 9 million kids this summer. Coincidence? I don't think so. Hundreds of thousands of the little squirts are headed for private residential camps where fees run as high as $125 a day. Our daughter hoped to be bunking with them...