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Long was assigned to the High School of Teaching, a magnet school on Manhattan's Upper East Side aimed at students who hope for a career in education. Following principal Alan Lentin on his daily rounds, Long sat in on a science class being run by a student teacher, witnessed a faculty meeting about how to help kids in danger of failing, and watched as Lentin ran one of his regular "family group" sessions. In an attempt to break down the anonymity of a big school, these clusters of 20 to 22 students meet regularly with a faculty member...
...such an infinitesimal lifetime that its presence can be inferred only from the whispery contrails of other particles into which it promptly decays. Thus the detector designed by Fermilab's scientists consists of more than 100,000 components, each intended to track different types of particles. A superconducting magnet, for example, helps measure the energy of electrons % and muons. The less these charged particles are bent by the electromagnetic field, the more energetic they are -- and the more likely that they were created by a top quark...
...bands scheduled to appear over the two nights include, among others: The Heretix. Bim-Skala-Bim, Steady Earnest, O-Positive, Buffalo Tom, Letters to Cleo, Talking to Animals, Orangatang, Green Magnet School, Chuck, The Blood Oranges, The Swinging Steaks and Come...
...Shea, guitarist for Green Magnet School, said the local music community has come together to save...
...sole black candidate for the commission, Agee was a natural magnet for multiple votes. The numerous white candidates were not. O.J. McGriff understands. McGriff, a white man, was a 26-year veteran of the county school board when a cumulative election for that body knocked him off. "A lot of % people thought I had it made, so they split their votes," he says. "I've learned a lesson. With cumulative voting, you're running against everybody -- like you're a potato in a basket." The system, he claims, is fair to minorities but not majorities, "and ((white)) people...