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Students whose reading levels are two years below those of their peers are often classified as dyslexic. Yet despite this disorder, dyslexics exhibit average to above average intelligence. Brilliant luminaries such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Agatha Christie and Woodrow Wilson are believed to have been dyslexic...
...Petras, project manager for Boston Edison, said he saw the movie as a an educational tool. "Our company feels that education is the key to stop the spread of the disease," he said. "As such, I am quite a willing supporter of events such as this...
...pluck out a piece of lazy prose, and print it here: "A monkey called, sounding far and lonesome. The classic jungle sound from old Tarzan movies." Or I could go a step further and mimic Waller, as Billy Frolick does in his new book-length parody, The Ditches of Edison County ("Concave's scream echoed through the canyons and ditches of Edison County, all the way to a farmhouse on the other end of town"). The legal principle that permits us to quote or closely imitate Waller's writing is "fair use," which carves out a small free-fire zone...
...Although Edison Project supporters say they will never service more than one percent of the country, the company hopes to raise the level of education in all American schools through competition, Tracey said...
About 50 students attended last night's talk. "I came because I wanted to finally hear the details of the Edison Project," said Brenda G. Matthis, a graduate student in the Harvard School of Education...