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...there's always this year's batch of "must-own" DVDs of didn't-need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores, and the American urge to lavish gifts upon one's family, friends and of course oneself will do the rest. Maybe they'll need a miracle...
...textbooks are revised, patriotic events staged and legions of counselors marshaled, high schools are also managing an intense need to return to what might feel normal. In New York, the High School for Leadership & Public Service, a magnet school two blocks from the World Trade Center, was forced to evacuate and wedge itself into cramped quarters at another school, three miles away. The teachers lacked books, even chalk. But principal Ada Dolch is determined to get back to basics or "kids will discuss this for the rest of their lives instead of doing math." That doesn't mean the tragedy...
Don’t get me wrong. Freshman Ryan Fitzpatrick stepped up in a big way, hurting Dartmouth with 58 yards in 17 rushing attempts and 262 passing yards while the pressure was on. He seemed composed beyond his experience, but it helps to have a ball-magnet like Morris downfield...
Birkeland, a native Norwegian, spent a year on a remote Finnish mountain tracking the magnetic fields of the Earth and their relationship to the auroras, the so-called northern lights. At the end of the nineteenth century, the setting of Jago’s account, the northern lights were still a mystery—heralded by some as messages from the gods and by others as signals from the dead. Jago manages to successfully transport the reader to Birkeland’s world, where adventurers still dreamed not of faraway planets, stars and moons, but of uncharted mountains, desolate frozen...
Stuyvesant High School in New York City, a magnet school with nearly 3,000 students that sent over 20 graduates to Harvard last year, was one of the schools whose college placement data and SAT data were used in Attewell’s research...