Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...analysis of data on more than 1,200 Alzheimer's patients shows that the drug tacrine works--at least to some degree. Tacrine seems to slow the degeneration of intellectual performance, including the ability to do simple math or remember. But the drug can't necessarily restore lost abilities: that occurs--modestly--in about only 10% of patients...
...about the mysteries of science and the magical stories of history, and I could have explained to him that in order to get a job in town and escape the third-world living conditions of the community he would need to know how to read and do basic math. But the truth was John didn't want to work in town. He never wanted to leave the community of Atitjere, and he was happy enough with the legends that his grandmother told him and the wondrous science of his cousin, the witchdoctor...
...contrary, Al Fehlman, a high school math teacher in Grand Junction, Colo., feels passionately that "there's something about hunting that nurtures my existence. There are many lessons about nature and life and death that can only be learned from hunting. Many plants and animals die daily to keep us fed, and hunting brings us into that process." Like many hunters, he teaches his son, 12, not to shoot anything he doesn't mean to eat. The hunting question always comes back to the Teddy Roosevelt paradox: Can we love animals and eat them? Can we love them and kill...
...Totally Tessellated," (http://library.advanced.org/16661), which features information on the background, history and application of tessellations in math, science and decoration through the ages, was a collaborative effort that grew out of the three's chance meeting at a summer program two years...
...wanted to focus on art and math," Kay said. "We considered chaos, music and math and ended up with tessellations in the art category of the competition. It is a subject of some usefulness in geometry and one that most people learn in the classroom...