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Ames seemed almost within the mole hunters' grasp, but he slipped away. In January 1990, Dan Payne was assigned to begin a two-month training course. No one was brought in to replace him. When he returned in March, he was pulled off the Ames investigation and sent overseas to pursue another lead in the mole hunt that proved to be a wild goose chase...
This week when 121,000 high school seniors file into classrooms around the country to take the calculus Advanced Placement examination, they will need to come armed with more than a couple of sharpened No. 2 pencils and a firm grasp of derivatives; they will also require the latest that math technology has to offer. Under new rules set by the College Board, all students who take the test must have a hand-held graphing calculator. Those who lack this powerful machine, which graphs complex equations, will have to sign a waiver stating that they will not challenge their scores...
...Cabinet Minister in charge of the Reconstruction and Development Program, the government's ambitious effort to improve the lives of the nation's impoverished black majority. Naidoo reports progress-196,000 new houses are in the pipeline-but he acknowledges that results have been slow. Mandela repeatedly demonstrates his grasp of practical details. For example, he advises Naidoo to look into a low-cost housing scheme emphasizing self-reliance that he recently observed in Namibia...
While the Crimson may have achieved that modest goal yesterday, the end result was nevertheless all-too familiar: a frustrating loss, 7-5, in a game which Harvard appeared to have firmly in its grasp...
...that new faces and pocketbooks will continue to patronize your business: Use the schools... Every decade there is a whole new crop of shining young faces taking their place in society as adults...How else would you get these potential customers and future leaders together?... Schools are an opportunity. Grasp...