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...white plastic chair by the ice machine at the Highland Motel in Bullhead City, Arizona; hang around the parking lot at the El Rey Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told...
...road at the Highland Motel, manager Alden Greeson, 57, spends his days bantering with the guests who stop by the ice machine. Greeson, a recovering alcoholic, owned 18 alcohol-treatment centers in northern Florida. "At 50," he says, "I just got up and walked away. I bought two Harleys and a van. I wanted to be free." He left his business, several homes and $2 million to his wife. "I'd always been a good father and a good husband. I raised five healthy kids. But I didn't want to be part of it anymore. The hollering kids...
...because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others use ones belonging to the school. Barbara Ross, who teaches A.P. math at Highland Park High School in New Jersey, is so outraged by the new policy that last January she lodged a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union. Acting on behalf of the A.C.L.U., Rutgers University's Urban Legal Clinic is preparing to challenge the requirement on the basis of, among other...
...will need the calculators for as much as 15% of the exam. Those scoring below a 4 (out of 5) may not receive college credit in calculus, thereby losing a chance to cut tuition costs. And some students feel they may be losing far more. Says Ernesto Andrianantoandro, a Highland Park senior who hopes to borrow a calculator from his school to take the exam: "I took this class because I wanted to do calculus and use my brain, not some machine's brain...
...scene in favor of Rob's personal drama. While the first half is liberally sprinkled with campfire sing-alongs and rustic detail, Rob effectively forgets the well being of the tribe in the second half. It's nice that he ends up with a charming house on the cameraready highland, but what happened to all those starving children he was planning to save...