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BRAIN TEASER What sordid scandal that took place in Seattle became part of a test question for high school students across Washington? The question on a new standardized test did not concern state history but rather logic. Students were challenged to map the correct route between fictitious towns. Clever 10th-graders who marked the right answer (C) traveled from Mayri, went through Clay and Lee and ended up in Turno. Eureka! Mary K. Letourneau, the elementary school teacher who seduced her 13-year-old former student and later had two children by him, one while she was serving time...
...hills, and the only clues that the area is farmland are the combines and grain elevators strategically placed along the side of the road. The hills roll on and on, blending with the dark storm clouds in a ever-deepening gray gradient in which the horizon never comes. The map tells me to take the road leading directly into the darkest, grayest, coldest-looking section of the entire horizon, and I pause for a moment at the junction heading north. But I am encouraged by my scrappy little orange Sunfire and its full tank of gas, so I step...
...trillion--about as large as the annual GDP of the U.S. economy. More than two-thirds of Latin America's construction is never legally registered--a big reason, De Soto found, why cement sales in Brazil bear little relation to official building figures. "We show a President the extralegal map, and it knocks his socks off. He realizes he doesn't govern the majority of his country...
...participating in a committee process now rather than waiting until a change in administration to start the negotiation process over from scratch. This issue will not be resolved before Rudenstine’s departure as president, but it is in PSLM’s interest to set the road map as soon as possible. PSLM should therefore make Mills Plus the focus of its efforts...
Fisher suggests that PSLM draw up a chart from the administration's perspective to try to find a way that each side can emerge from the controversy politically "okay" with their constituencies. The PSLM could map the pluses and minuses from Harvard's point of view, Fisher says, both if Harvard gives in and if they stand firm so that PSLM can develop a greater understanding of the opposition's view...