Word: magnetization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that attend decrepitude. The town is seen as a doddering, muttering, pest-ridden bag lady. New York can hardly remember the glory days when it was an empress, exquisite in its elegance and clout. In that gilded time, Manhattan was also the world's show-biz Mecca, a glamour magnet of theater, department stores and cafe society. Today those species are endangered or extinct...
...number of experienced educational reformers have their doubts. "We have this romantic view that if we can show a successful pilot school, others will follow. Not true!" says Linda Darling-Hammond, noting that decades of successful magnet schools and model schools have not transformed the system. "Ordinary schools don't have the material resources -- the funds, the faculty -- to emulate the charters," she says. And it doesn't help that some school districts are so much poorer than others. "Unless you equalize spending, there's no hope of reforming schools at the bottom of the range...
...break whatever mold they are poured into, it won't be easy to escape the feeling that this time Woodstock will be history's largest convergence of the mass market. What else can you say about a gathering of the tribes that already has its own official refrigerator magnet, to say nothing of its own condom and kaleidoscope? Whose organizers . test-marketed the proposed lineup of bands to see which names would get maximum audience response? Which will be brought to you with the sponsorship of Pepsi, Haagen-Dazs and Apple computer, and sold to you via QVC's home...
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...