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...People need to learn how to think quantitatively--we do live in a technological age," says Henry Ehrenreich, Clowes professor of science. "We need to understand the numerical ways of expressing trends which have to do with society in a general way. It's very reasonable to add this requirement...
appreciation course," he says. "This is not a practical, pre-professional course, and we are not going to expect the students to master complicated mathematical techniques any more than you'd expect the students in a music appreciation course to learn to write a symphony...
...Caring for our parents as they grow old is a task for which no one is prepared. We learn on the spot." SUZANNE P. HIATT Fairfield, Conn...
Carol Seefeldt, a researcher on children's concepts of money at the University of Maryland, says that "if you want children to learn to make wise decisions and plan and budget, they need more than an allowance to do that." She suggests that parents involve kids in simple decisions involving the cost of meals and clothing and teach them to help comparison-shop for the family...
...fictional tour de force sticks to the historical record, but what may or may not have been said or done in private is of necessity impure fiction--dramatizations of Hitler as a sexually disabled masochist are graphic and over the top. Still, this is a painless way to learn a little history and enjoy such priceless dialogue as "She touched the swastika and said, 'Won't the girls at school be envious...