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After walking Tobin, Mankiw rouses his 14-year old daughter so that she can catch the 7:00 a.m. bus. He says his daughter enjoys math and history. “I always took that as a sign that she may be a future economist,” Mankiw says...
With branes, Randall discovered a way to explain how extra dimensions could be hidden and infinitely large. Because the math behind her theory works, theoretical physicists have paid close attention to her research...
...People sometimes say that I have the ideas before the math, but many times that’s not really true,” Randall says. “Sometimes we have some of the math, but I then figure out what it means. That was the case with the work on infinite extra dimensions...
...Policy Research compared the academic gains of students taught by Teach For America corps members with the gains of similar students taught by non-Teach For America teachers in the same schools. It found that corps members’ classes made 10 percent more progress in one year in math than is typically expected and slightly exceeded the normal expectation for progress in reading. In addition, the students of Teach For America corps members achieved greater gains overall than did the students of other teachers—novice or veteran, certified or uncertified—in the same schools...
...Wall Street isn?t entirely convinced by Karmazin?s math. No one can say how many listeners Sirius would bring in without Stern, or precisely how many listeners he's responsible for attracting. XM, after all, expects to add nearly 1 million subscribers in the fourth quarter without a blowout personality in its lineup. Which leaves Wall Street flummoxed as to Stern's true value. ?Howard will be big but [his] actual impact remains unknown,? Bank of America analyst Jonathan Jacoby wrote in a recent research note...