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...students to benefit from a Harvard education.”THE GRAND EQUALIZERIn a rapidly developing technological world, more students may come to see the DEP as a viable educational option. Greenberg says this is the first year that he has been able to broadcast sections where students can instant message their questions. Nonetheless, problems abound. According to Bamberg, who taught a probability class online, one of the biggest hassles was ensuring that students had access to fax machines or scanners to send in their hand-written math homework. For Lewis, a major problem for his online students was somewhat...
...when he mentioned that he was a speller and the doctors challenged him with obscure medical terms, he lit up and even cracked jokes in the operating room. Scenarios like this only happen on television, but the spelling, for teens like him, is very real.A few days later, AOL Instant Messenger News published an article about a girl from Montana who won her regional spelling bee after 41 rounds of head-to-head spelling competition. Wow! Competitive spelling has been in the public eye for some time now. From movies like “Spellbound” to the Broadway...
...Local faces may work for now, but in 2008 Democrats are going to need someone with instant, coast-to-coast credibility on national security. Hillary Clinton has worked hard as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, but no matter how well-versed she is in military affairs, she still hasn't earned the kind of instinctual trust needed to earn votes on that front. The governors Mark Warner and Tom Vilsack don't inspire that kind of confidence either. Only dark horse Wesley Clark has the kind of credibility that Dems want, but he has other political shortcomings...
...Walsh, though, when Josh Klimkiewicz stole second in a similar spot in game two—up 8-1 in the fourth inning—it did not violate the informal regulation. Walsh said he employs, in the college game with its aluminum bats and ever-present threat of instant offense, an eight-run threshold, other coaches wait until nine. “It’s also the type of ballgame, the way it’s going,” Walsh said. “That’s how baseball is. There’s some things...
...more than 300 juniors and seniors spend their afternoons learning trades from nursing to marketing to auto-body repair. And there is a plan to build an alternative high school, which Adams envisions as a low-key place where, if they want to, kids can eat a doughnut while instant-messaging friends during loosely structured study hall, so long as they get their work done at some point. "Too many kids, at their exit interviews, say, 'I'm just done with this process--50 minutes, bell, 50 minutes, bell,'" says principal Zobel. "With the alternative school, I could give them...