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...local pride. A-Bian was the greatest student Tainan county had ever seen, his intelligence and perspicacity as obvious and tangible as an Olympic sprinter's speed. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan, an elementary-school classmate who still lives in the township, "because he knew he would lose...
...selling his message of DPP victory this December but more importantly selling A-Bian, the plucky little A-student from Hsi-chuang. Only now he wants to be the popular kid instead of the smart kid, the one you want to hang out with rather than the one whose homework you want to borrow. Then he can lead, because if you like him you will trust...
...without breaking. Infrared sensors in classroom ceilings connect the laptops to the school's server and the Internet. Teachers of everything from science to American history incorporate the Web into lesson plans. Away from school, kids plug their laptops into phone lines to question teachers or online experts about homework, or check cafeteria menus. When students are out sick, their teachers e-mail their missed assignments...
That kind of response was bothering Stonewall parents more than anything else, as Constantino learned when he became principal six years ago. Parents wondered, Did their child arrive on time for school that day? Did he or she turn in the math homework? Are there any big tests or projects coming...
...stuffed with guerrilla fighters and lacking the fuel depots, airfields and roads that a modern army needs. Giving Colombia five times the resources would not make the cleanup go five times as fast. It would be like giving your five-year-old a Sun workstation to do her math homework. And no one in Washington wants U.S. soldiers drawn into a long jungle battle. A State Department website on Colombia features as special link that highlights the concern: "Why Colombia Is Not Vietnam. Click here...