Word: einsteins
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...session to determine how well they perform under pressure. Mathematics is a tougher challenge for all concerned. Thus far the attempts to build a portfolio include everything from exercises in factors and fractions to mind-stretching essays on the color of mathematics and the composition of letters to Albert Einstein. But, says Ann Rainey, an award-winning eighth-grade math teacher in the Shelburne Middle School near Burlington, "we still don't know what a math portfolio should be." The development of a uniform portfolio-scoring system is equally difficult. Vermont education authorities have set up seven week- long sessions...
...training for since college. A Harvard-educated physician and a University of Chicago-trained lawyer, he defied geography and sleep deficits to achieve both degrees simultaneously. He studied management at New York University and politics as a Senate staffer. For nine years, he ran the hospital at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. When he was tapped for the FDA post, he was serving on a federal commission analyzing that very agency. "A lot of my background comes together here," he says. "I feel comfortable, enormously comfortable here...
...imperative belongs to the transient domains of fashion and snobbery, and in any case sycophancy is not unique to America or to Western societies. Harder to grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against the non-Western or nonwhite. Who or what is the villain here? Galileo? Einstein? The Magna Carta? The Bill of Rights? Was Martin Luther King Jr. diminished, made to feel inferior, when he read Henry David Thoreau along with Gandhi on civil disobedience? Or for that matter when he contemplated the Reformation launched by his 16th century German namesake...
...case, the 20th century shattered the lenses and paradigms, the very mind, of reason. The universe went from Newton's model to Einstein's, and beyond, into absurdities even more profound. An underlying assumption of proportion and continuity in the world perished. The proportions between cause and effect were skewed. A minuscule event (indeed, an atom) could blossom into vast obliterations. Einstein said God does not play dice with the world. But if there was order, either scientific or moral, in God's universe, it became absurdly inaccessible...
Still, there is nothing in the laws of physics that says time cannot run backward. Einstein's equations of motion work equally well, mathematically, when the direction of time is reversed. Yet no one has ever been able to travel back in time. Theoretical physicists find the situation intriguing: if the laws that govern nature really permit time reversal, there should somehow be a way to achieve it. Now a theorist at Princeton University has come up with a way that travel into the past might, in principle, be accomplished, even if it may not be practical...