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...student of longtime Los Angeles high school teacher Jaime Escalante's, now a teacher herself, called her former instructor "a master artist." Indeed, it was his refusal to accept commonly held beliefs that made his work so beautiful. Unlike many others, he refused to tolerate the notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials...
...products from palm oil into ethanol. "In our view, being on the edge of new green technologies is a great opportunity," says Eldrup. "It gives us an advantage in reducing CO[subscript 2], but it also gives us technological advantages as well as business opportunities. The U.S. has very high ambitions to increase its ethanol production, and we think this might be a great opportunity in years to come...
...amount of a pollutant that can be emitted—than a carbon tax, because the cap-and-trade system exhibits the “independence property”—the theoretical and actual ability of a system to keep costs low and environmental performance high...
...right now, because we should let the races later down the line speak to that,” Eiermann said. “But for ourselves, we’re very happy with where we are right now. We can come out of this weekend with our chins held high, knowing that we’re on the right path...
Each team recorded a goal in the second quarter, and Hurley nabbed his second goal of the game six minutes into the third to put the Big Red ahead, 7-4. After freshman Jack Doyle scored his career-high second goal of the game, Cohen tallied a pair in 19 seconds to tie the game. Following a Cornell penalty, Cohen found junior Dean Gibbons, who capitalized on the man-up opportunity and gave the Crimson its first lead with 43 seconds left in the third quarter...