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James Fogel, at age 50, has earned plenty of money as a lawyer, plus a splash of prestige as a criminal-court judge in New York City. Now he feels free to step down from the bench and dive back into the subjects he loved most in college: math and physics. At the same time, he is following what he describes as "an even higher calling" than the law - to work as an inner-city high school math teacher...
...ONLINE LECTURES Look and Learn Does money make the world go round? Should we cross an antelope with a cheetah? For a couple of weeks you can get the answers free straight from some of the top brains in history, science, math, philosophy and more. Britain's Boxmindis putting leading lecturers online, with webcasts, slides, synchronized transcripts and links. You can follow in your own time or break off to pursue a line of thought. From the end of March the lectures will only be available as part of an e-lecture library on sale to educational institutions...
...Before the program went into effect, Dolan dealt with 55 fights a year; now she averages six. Also, the school's standardized math and reading scores have risen from the 40th to the 60th percentile--in part, she thinks, because students are better able to focus on their studies...
Chen is the team's only computer science concentrator. Conittzer concentrated in applied math as an undergraduate, and Chiburis concentrates in combined math and computer science...
...Loeb House, the NASDAQ plunged 6 percent, and Wall Street had its first bear market of the millennium. The faltering economy is a problem for President George W. Bush, who was noted during the presidential debates for his insistence that critics of his tax plan were using "fuzzy math." If government revenues dry up, Bush may have to backtrack on his huge tax cut proposal...