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James Alvino, the decathlon association's executive director, insists the group markets study materials "to level the playing field" after wealthy schools demonstrated a competitive edge. "Under the old system," agrees Nathan Schauer, a coach at Los Angeles' Lincoln High, "a few schools were always wiping the floor with the rest of us." Alvino adds that the $1.3 million proceeds from sales of study guides last year are needed to help support the nonprofit program's $1.75 million operating budget. In response to its critics, the decathlon association promises to cut prices for study guides and eliminate them for three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumb Questions for Bright Kids? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...longer had enough income to support her family and moved back to the Boston area, accepting a job studying the re-entry physics of missiles at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Purple Fingers: Beutler Practices Physics in a Man's World | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...spent nine years at Lincoln Lab, and remarried during this span...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Purple Fingers: Beutler Practices Physics in a Man's World | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...squeezed out by the "critical mass" of the Windows product. The reality, for all of Bill's bleating, is that it is difficult for people to choose or use a non-Microsoft product--not because Microsoft products are the best, but simply because of their ubiquity. ANDY MCMULLON Lincoln, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 5, 2000 | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...business. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Illinois, and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. The practice was popular with many of the whiskered forgettables nominated for the office between Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancel the Campaign! Let's Play 'Who Wants to Be a President'! | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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