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...minority enrollment. In a pilot program in Oregon, high school and state-college educators are redesigning college-entrance requirements so that admission will hinge on a portfolio of student work graded on a uniform scale. In the California State University system, 54% of freshmen had to take remedial math courses in 1998; the following year only...
Martin's Greenspan is a better read. A former FORTUNE writer, Martin gives us a real biography, one that winds through Greenspan's geeky youth (band, glee club, math nerd) to his stint as a professional clarinet player and time spent in the inner circle of author Ayn Rand, and then to his advisory role with Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable...
...PROOF David Auburn's intriguing mix of memory play and math lesson concerns a professor's daughter who may or may not have solved a famous math enigma. Of the year's two brainy science plays (the other: Copenhagen), this is the one that touches the heart...
Maulik, from Roslyn, N.Y., is a mathematics concentrator, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Goldwater Scholar. Although he said his plans are subject to change, he hopes to pursue master's degrees in math and biology in order to study the overlap between the two fields...
Here's some basic math. The NASDAQ has lost half its value. To get even, it must double. At 10% a year, money doubles in about seven years. That gets you the drawn-out recovery. Yet no-dividend growth stocks should compound at 12% to 15%, implying a recovery in about five years. And I believe the market has muscle memory; having been there once, it's easier to get back. My prediction? Three years. Odds are I'm wrong. What's important, though, is that I'm mentally set for a grind. Go ahead, Mr. Market, surprise me, pleeeeze...