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Pauley’s analytical side also drew her to Harvard. “I was very math-y and science-y and the opportunity to go to Harvard was huge in my head,” she said. (“I studied physics and it kicked my ass,” she said. That’s when she switched to biological anthropology...
Recent elections had obliged by actually being close. But this time, the pundits had to speak in a subtle code, saying what they knew without saying what they knew. "Everybody check my math," Keith Olbermann asked the MSNBC panel, defying them to say which state could get McCain to 270 electoral votes. Liberal bastion California? Obama's home state, Hawaii? "You have a jeweler's eye," Chris Matthews told him slyly...
...point, NBC political director Chuck Todd scribbled on a "virtual whiteboard" in a kind of tribute, wondering what Russert would have said about the night's results. Todd and a few others still use math and reporting to crack the electoral code as Russert did. But they don't have Russert's authority...
...Your Economic ABCs The only thing more confusing than the byzantine course Justin Fox traverses in asserting that McCain was right about the economy's fundamentals being strong is his claim that Palin was "on to something" when she elaborated [Oct. 27]. Even a cursory look at high school math and science scores makes our workforce's challenges more than clear - a point Fox ignores while lauding the productivity of our still shrinking manufacturing base. That's a little like cheering the season-ending win by a losing team. Anthony Noel, Greenville...
...Deborah Sercombe, principal at the Amigos School, which has met its target in math and received high performance ratings in English, admits that teachers have to be very careful about how time is allocated among academic learning, art classes, music training, and physical education...