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...instruction for Project STAR (Science Teaching Through Its Astronomical Roots), a program taught in 18 schools in 13 states. STAR is based on the premise that books are abysmal tools for learning science. "It's impossible to understand an astronomy diagram without using three dimensions at proper scale," says Irwin Shapiro, the irrepressible director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and the man who dreamed up STAR six years ago. "High school science textbooks are impossible. They are dense with concepts and jargon. No one understands what's going on." Adds Kenneth Mirvis, who writes STAR...
...downstairs Safari Room, where players shoot pool amid zebra skins, mounted sailfish and a stuffed bobcat. In Boston, Jillian's Billiard Club has a private room, furnished as an English gentleman's library, that rents for $30 an hour. "It's becoming a glamour sport," observes Ed Irwin, a banker by day and a player by night...
...American jobs placed so many demands on employees. To compete effectively, the average American worker today must employ skills at a ninth-to-twelfth-grade level, in contrast to the typical fourth-grade standard during World War II. "It's not that people are becoming less literate," points out Irwin Kirsch, a senior research psychologist working for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. "It's that we keep raising the standards...
While emotional concerns can upset this process, most trouble results from physical problems. In young men, injury is the main cause of loss of potency. "Coming down hard on the narrow seat of a ten-speed bicycle can damage the arteries or the nerves," says urologist Irwin Goldstein of Boston University School of Medicine, who recently chaired an international conference on impotence research. But the vast majority of impotent men -- most are above age 55 -- are victims of poor habits or illness. Alcoholism, for example, can deaden nerves. Cigarette smoking can reduce blood flow to the penis by constricting vessels...
...thank the Academy." As Martin feigns death, Williams hovers over him, murmuring the pet name "Didi, Didi," then segues into the theme from The Twilight Zone. Martin is never so outrageous, but his familiar cool-guy strut and laid-back vocalisms keep him from inhabiting his character. Irwin is grayly competent as Lucky. The only really satisfying performance is Abraham's. Hugely self-satisfied in the first act, blind and pathetic in the second, he steals the show by simply acting his role while the stars are embellishing theirs...