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...meet once a week, but not everyone comes," Baker says. "Because our numbers are growing, it's becoming harder to have the family atmosphere we strive for. I wouldn't say we're tight-knit because it is something very specific we have in common...
...strongman may have been banking on the possibility that the opposition coalition would fracture in the heat of violent confrontation that threatens to turn into a civil war. Or that its loose knit alliance would be no match organizationally for Milosevic's security forces in a national battle for power. But that depends on the security forces remaining loyal. To hold on to power in the face of an insurrectional challenge, Milosevic would need his security forces to use violence against demonstrators - and there were plenty of signs in the Belgrade Thursday that troops won?t kill fellow Serbs...
...Suddenly I was cool. In Los Angeles these days, going on strike is about the grooviest thing you can do short of wearing a hip-hoppy knit winter cap while lifting weights at Crunch next to Tobey Maguire. L.A.'s bus and rail operators have been on strike for about three weeks now in protest over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to eliminate some work rules and reduce overtime pay. The actors' unions recently set a record with the longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television...
...this playful way, the 31-year-old native of Buenos Aires has been able to suggest a way to knit together two theories previously thought to be incompatible: quantum mechanics, which deals with the universe at its smallest scales; and Einstein's general theory of relativity, which deals with the very largest. Even as an undergraduate at Argentina's Instituto Balseiro, Maldacena had been intrigued by the idea that a bridge spanning the two might be constructed using string theory--so called because it assumes the fundamental constituents of matter are not pointlike particles but tiny, vibrating loops of string...
Summer school has traditionally helped close the gap. In tight-knit classes staffed with veteran teachers, students polish the sort of basic reading and math skills that often trip them up during the year. In more than 85% of summer-school evaluations, students who attended summer classes outperformed those who did not, according to a study by University of Missouri psychology professor Harris Cooper. The benefits can be lasting: 85% of students who spent their sixth-grade summer in Chicago's program, with classes at 15 students maximum, will be promoted to high school this fall. "The intimidation factor...