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After an intensive, five-week training program over the summer, TFA places its 1,000-member-strong Corps into under-resourced schools in 13 different locations, from Washington, D.C. and Houston to rural Louisiana...
...book has produced strong reactions, both positive and negative, in the academic community. "It sounds reasonable," says the University of Louisiana's Lewis Pyenson, author of The Young Einstein (1985), of Zackheim's theory. "I'd like to see what evidence has been dug up to support it." But Boston University historian Robert Schulmann, director of the Einstein Papers Project, is much less impressed. He concedes that Zackheim's conclusions about Lieserl's fate are "as good as anything I could come up with, or anyone else. But," he emphasizes, "it's speculation." Harvard physicist and Einstein historian Gerald Holton...
...Gwynne's article on the rap singers who moved into an exclusive gated community in Louisiana [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 30] has prompted me to write. I work with Johannesburg's street children. I talk to them about their lives and how rap music relates to the young people on the streets. I do not believe that rappers' recordings "celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade," as Gwynne wrote. They are merely drawing our attention to ghetto life and the ugly truth of it. In the ghetto you have to be tough or die. I know from being with these people...
...past three years, students have either died or become comatose after taking GHB at institutions in Massachusetts, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. This past spring, two Princeton University students overdosed on the drug...
...last five months, Louisiana, Colorado and Minnesota have enacted laws toughening penalties for the possession, manufacture or sale of the drug...