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WARSAW (population 1697) comfortablystraddles the Osage River in the Missouri Ozarks.Brad's mother, Joan, says Campbells have beenliving, working and teaching on this jagged, rockysoil for five generations...
Brad's father, Jim Campbell, left Warsaw forcollege and found a teaching job in an affluentsuburb of St. Louis where he met another teacher,Joan Polmantier. Joan grew up in the college townof Columbia, where her father was an educationalpsychologist at the University of Missouri...
...hearings, citing the right against self-incrimination. The court-martial of AWACS Captain Jim Wang, the only officer facing trial in the shootdown, is scheduled for next week. The tragedy, says Diehl, is a "reflection of much larger, systemic problems with the U.S.A.F. safety program." Piper and his wife Joan were upset to learn last week that one of the F-15 pilots is again flying Air Force jets and that the service has barred Diehl from testifying at Wang's court-martial...
...embrace new technology without considering the many students who cannot afford an $80-to-$100 calculator. And the effort required to learn how to use it, some teachers believe, far outweighs the benefits. "The students grow dependent on a machine to do all the work for them," says Joan Harrison, who teaches A.P. math in Durham, North Carolina. "And I'm driven nuts because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others...
...Joan Meissner, who paid $40 to a scalper for an obstructed-view seat, to (not) see the final Celtics game in the Boston Garden...