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...half years. Nolan said she didn’t feel the needs of the district have been adequately dealt with over the past years. “The district’s not where I think it should be,” she said after the meeting. Jack Haverty, a former teacher in the district and president of the Cambridge Teacher’s Association, said he approved of Fowler-Finn’s “serious” approach to the job and lack of “political games...
...research is a paltry $1 billion, or roughly a day of revenue for Exxon Mobil.) But there's no reason that business can't be a major part of the climate change solution, or that profit isn't concordant with a desire to save the Earth. Krupp writes about Jack Newman, a California surfer and former college dropout who helped found the promising biofuel start up Amyris. The company is working on ways to bioengineer better, cleaner and more efficient biofuels. It's extremely cool stuff, and potentially very profitable, but for Newman this goes beyond the money...
Although Venter’s role as a visiting scholar is not well defined, he will be working closely with Harvard Medical School professor Jack W. Szostak in exploring cell reconstitution, which deals with synthesizing the basic elements of the living cell...
...parents of some 200,000 home-schooled kids in California were stunned last week when they learned that a judge had declared home schooling illegal unless conducted by a licensed teacher. For the moment, though, those parents can breathe a sigh of relief. Yesterday, Jack O'Connell, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, released a statement saying that the California Department ofEducation will not go after parents who do not have teaching credentials: "I have reviewed this case, and I want to assure parents that chose to home school that California Department of Education policy will not change...
...there are reasons for that. They don’t get to have a full stake in society and they’re not motivated like people who have a stake. Whether you have a house, a job, or the loss of a job, it changes your whole approach. Jack Kennedy with his charisma certainly did bring out idealism in youth, and of course Hubert Humphrey probably in greater detail than did Jack Kennedy. We don’t have that situation right now. Where are the young people in that regard? I don’t think that they?...