Word: magnetism
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...inner-city parents and conservative groups--retort that the judge misread both the Cleveland program and the First Amendment. They point out that Cleveland parents who don't like parochial schools can send their kids to the city's regular public schools, or to public charter schools and magnet schools. Clint Bolick, a lawyer for the Institute for Justice, which defended the voucher program, says, "No one can compel a child into the program or into a religious school...
Center of the World Dadu: Magnet for trade, diplomacy, and the fabled riches of Asia. Rivals: Venice, merchant of the Mediterranean; Timbuktu, golden capital of Mali...
Einstein's galvanizing effect on the popular imagination continued throughout his life, and after it. Fearful his grave would become a magnet for curiosity seekers, Einstein's executors secretly scattered his ashes. But they were defeated at least in part by a pathologist who carried off his brain in hopes of learning the secrets of his genius. Only recently Canadian researchers, probing those pickled remains, found that he had an unusually large inferior parietal lobe--a center of mathematical thought and spatial imagery--and shorter connections between the frontal and temporal lobes. More definitive insights, though, are emerging from...
...emerge over the next 15 years were used to pay it off. That would create a host of new challenges for economists and currency traders. What kind of security, for example, could replace the 30-year Treasury bond as the bellwether of bond trading and as a particular magnet for foreigners who accumulate dollars in trade with the U.S. and want to invest the bucks in something both high-yielding and safe? "This is my definition of a high-class problem," Summers wryly remarked. But no one at the meeting expected nearly every penny of budget surpluses to be used...
During his time in New York, McCourt also taught creative writing classes and spent much of his career at Stuyvesant High School, the city's well-known math/science magnet school...