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Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the small ones that usually doesn't put on much of a show - or hasn't since it was first discovered in 1892. A couple of weeks ago, however, this insignificant object formed a huge halo (officially known as a coma, from the Latin word for hair), which quickly swelled to the size of the planet Jupiter. And puny Holmes, a million times brighter than it had been a couple of hours before, suddenly became visible to the naked eye. And so it remains: You can see it yourself, without binoculars if you use this...
...ones (special education students), schools appear the federal watch list despite the general gains in achievement. Recently, the school district has made some progress in reducing disparities between the subgroups, with poorer students and racial minorities improving their performance relative to higher-achieving groups. In 2006, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School improved subgroup performance for the first time since 2003, the first year the achievement gap was monitored. If the school closes the gaps further this year, it will be removed from the federal watch list altogether. Members of the School Committee advocate different approaches to closing achievement gap. Former...
...waits to meet a reporter at Harvard’s Science Center, Sullivan reminisces with a Greenhouse Cafe employee, a former football teammate from his days at Cambridge Rindge and Latin in the early 1980s...
...district since 2003, is highly-regarded for his skills as an educator. His allies, notably School Committee member Nancy K. Walser, point to improvements in standardized test scores during his tenure, particularly the 20-point increase in English and 19-point jump in Math at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School from...
Even if the Ariases win, they risk becoming another symbol of Latin America's gaping chasm between a hyperwealthy élite and the abject poor. Panama and its reformist President, Martín Torrijos, may have a good business plan for the future, but the nation's near 40% poverty rate is a legacy of decades of banana-republic rule and dismal social spending. Hilda declined to speak to TIME on the record because the case is still pending, but her granddaughter Madelaine Urrutia, who sits on the board of a children's charity, insists, "We are a family with...