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...There is a lot of discussion about how to fix education. Technology can certainly play a role. Students and teachers at my school are thrilled that our building is undergoing a multimillion dollar renovation to include state-of-the-art technology in all classrooms. Kids will be captivated by multimedia geography presentations and interactive math labs. But the old fundamentals will still apply. Students rely on compassionate teachers to guide, to tutor, to listen, to laugh and to cry with them. Teachers provide the most important link in the educational process-the human...
...down to eastern Long Island to spend a couple of days holed up in a friend’s basement bunker. Armed with various forecasting publications, reams of statistics and an unhealthy knowledge of the positional depth charts of all 16 National League franchises, we set about carefully assigning dollar values to every player in the N.L. based upon our projections of their 2006 performance. The goal was to develop an approximate plan of action—something along the lines of “spend twice as much money on hitting than pitching...
...World Junior Championships but her third World Champion title in four years, a feat that has never been achieved by anyone else in the age group, according to Brand. He commented on the reasons for her success: “I think that is the 64 thousand dollar question,” he said. “Emily is a phenomenal person, with tremendous desire and determination. She sets her sights very high and works very hard to accomplish all these things.” “I think that is one of the things that happens when...
...going on at Lamont this summer, including the replacement of heating and cooling equipment, removal and resetting of the outside steps, replacement of stair treads in four interior stairways, and renovation of the Woodberry Poetry Room. “It’s going to be a multi-million-dollar summer in Lamont,” Cline said. The cafe itself has a working budget of a million dollars or less, according to Cline. “We may have to adjust our expectations a little bit about the size or furnishings to stay within budget, but we hope...
...main competitors are the major multi-million dollar corporate commercial stations in Boston,” Stona writes. “Our commercial status forces us to ‘play in the big leagues’ per se and to maintain a distinct level of professionalism...