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Martin Luther King Jr. was 26 years old when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and 39 when he was murdered. Prodigies in music and math are familiar, but moral genius we typically associate with age. The gap between the brevity of King's life and its consequence is easy to state but hard to fathom, like the speed of light...
...lesson behind the math is that on a warming planet, land is an incredibly precious commodity, and every acre used to generate fuel is an acre that can't be used to generate the food needed to feed us or the carbon storage needed to save us. Searchinger acknowledges that biofuels can be a godsend if they don't use arable land. Possible feedstocks include municipal trash, agricultural waste, algae and even carbon dioxide, although none of the technologies are yet economical on a large scale. Tilman even holds out hope for fuel crops--he's been experimenting with Midwestern...
...sections in English, math, reading, and science, along with an optional writing section. Ed Colby, a spokesman for the ACT, called the ACT “a curriculum based achievement test” as compared to the SAT, a reasoning test...
...self-proclaimed science-and-math guy, Lee says he wasn’t particularly interested in politics before being inspired by Obama...
...trading at over $200 and has a market cap of more than $27 billion. That's about $10 billion above what Visa Inc. just raised with its IPO - and Visa is the market leader with 40% higher earnings than MasterCard. It doesn't take a math whiz to see why Wall Street is all charged up on the king of cards...