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...depend utterly on healing - unexplainable, amazing, taken-for-granted automatic mending of cut skin - for any and every success we can possibly have with any surgery. We rely on it much as a farmer depends on his hard, dry seeds to turn into green plants, but our need is a little more intense: If the healing miracle fails, what I accomplish in surgery is only to hurt someone who came to me for help. And I'm likely to feel more than emotional pain - plenty of juries can be convinced that an un-healing wound is sure evidence of malpractice...
...direct reaction against Mondale's disastrous campaign. Indeed, a few minutes after the photo op, Senator Clinton offered the clearest statement of her own - and her husband's - philosophy that I've ever heard. It came during a brisk question-and-answer session with local residents. A retired dairy farmer complained about the deregulation of his industry and asked what she'd do about it. "During this campaign, you're going to hear me talk a lot about the importance of balance," she began, after acknowledging that the Bush Administration had gone too far toward deregulation in most areas...
...English classroom. The students who attend regularly don’t just come for the extra credit. They come because they love math. They come because they love hearing the teachers on my hallway debate the best way to solve an old AMC problem about the area of Farmer Bob’s land. We teachers are the Helena Aquarium...
...communities, are too important to reduce their impact to a five-step lesson plan. Indeed, my Math Club kids don’t stay two hours after school to listen to me lecture. They want me and Mr. Agrawal, a chemical engineer from Columbia, to make learning fun, one Farmer Bob problem at a time...
...first-year teacher, I can hardly claim to be the most effective educator Helena has ever seen. But simply by opening our doors every Monday for Math Club, we teachers are filling the Abyss. The secret? Farmer Bob, not federal dollars. As my students will tell you, millions in government subsidies plus an ever-growing Abyss is still, sadly, less than zero...