Word: magnetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess you could call a flooding basement an "unparalleled resource"...I mean, I know some guys in the Sahara who would kill for one of these. And our pool table is fairly "unparalleled" as well. The way the right corner pocket just sucks the balls right in, like a magnet. And the cockroaches that have been known to stampede across the kitchen floor. I guess they're pretty "unparalleled" too. Bio labs across the country would pay a fortune for a living specimen (a nearly impossible request: they were very fast. If not, they would be reduced quickly...
...young certainly do. Prosperity next door has become a magnet for young Hunanese, though they may still lack the skills to benefit quickly. Those who remain behind contend that the lure of Guangdong saps Hunan of its best and brightest. In Changsha, the capital of Hunan, one government functionary demands a radical solution. "We should not merely ask for higher prices for our rice and vegetables," he says. "We should demand 40% of Guangdong's foreign-exchange earnings. Otherwise we would really become its colony." Some Hunanese have gone so far as blockading the border to prevent the outflow...
...Meissner effect, named after German Physicist Walther Meissner, is defined as the exclusion of a magnetic field. The Stephenson effect, named after TIME Picture Editor Michele Stephenson, is defined as the solution to the problem of producing a perfect photograph to illustrate an impossibly complex story. The picture behind Stephenson, in which a swinging ceramic ball is being repelled by a horseshoe magnet, is an ingenious portrayal of superconductivity, one of the most promising new scientific frontiers. The Meissner effect picture by TIME's Bill Pierce, which appeared in our Aug. 10, 1987, issue, won the prestigious Budapest Award, given...
Parent participation is another priority for these bellwether principals. Rubye McClendon, who heads the dazzling, $20 million, virtually all-black magnet school, Benjamin E. Mays High in middle-class southwest Atlanta, put on a special celebration two weeks ago for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, attended by, among others, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, whose son goes to the school. Around McClendon, however, Young is just another father who is aware that the principal expects his participation at the school. "Parents are the key to discipline," says McClendon, "and they must know what's going on. We send the syllabus home...
...shut down 18 underused schools, imposed a citywide curriculum and instituted achievement tests for kindergarten through ninth grade. Those who failed were held back, including almost 10,000 kindergartners over five years. Green negotiated millions in corporate gifts to the school system. And he broke segregation patterns with busing, magnet schools and careful (some thought rigid) monitoring of racial balance. To halt white flight, he organized tours of a turned-around school for real estate agents. They were impressed. So are education observers, who now rate the system among the nation's best. Even his critics, who consider him arrogant...