Word: dollars
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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...
...These games elicit a small town, at-home type feeling that businesslike big-league ballparks, with their six-dollar hot dogs, lack...
...Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. “We found an association between fluoride levels in drinking water during childhood and osteosarcoma for males diagnosed before age 20 years,” she wrote. Douglass’ $1.3 million dollar, 15 year study did not find a link between drinking fluoridated water and developing osteosarcoma. He said Bassin’s study is a subset of his study and that he had not been able to replicate her results. The Environmental Working Group, a Washington D.C. based advocacy group, recently filed...