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...Basically, because there's no opposition, you're going to get your name on the ballot almost for free," says Robert Winters, a local politico and Harvard math preceptor who publishes an on-line community newsletter...
...their kids "would have a notebook for each subject." At the ribbon cutting in Los Angeles, Monique Allen, 10, of the 68th Street school, says she long suspected one of her teachers had deep pockets because the school "didn't have the kind of paper she put in my math folder." Now it does...
...done his best to take advantage of his iconoclastic campaign. He calls it "an experiment in American government," and has taken to pronouncing himself "the big underdog," targeted by a money-loving Republican establishment. "They're dying to take the Feingold off McCain-Feingold," he says. Neumann, a former math teacher and homebuilder, argues that Feingold isn't the goody-goody he claims to be: over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about it," says...
...metropolitan area that today boasts 1,500 home-school families, many with teenage children demanding basketball teams, theater productions and science labs. So the home-school movement in Wichita has literally outgrown the home. Wichita's home schoolers boast three bands, a choir, a bowling group, a math club, a 4-H Club, boy- and girl-scout troops, a debate team, a yearly musical, two libraries and a cap-and-gown graduation. In donated rooms across Wichita, home schoolers attend classes in algebra, English, science, swimming, accounting, sewing, public speaking and Tae Kwan Do. Parental support groups with names like...
...YORK: They may not be able to bang out the works of Shakespeare on the old Royal just yet, but primates are getting pretty good at math. A couple of rhesus monkeys at Columbia University have perfected the art of counting ?- up to nine, at least -? according to a study published Friday in the journal Science. "They share with humans the ability to master simple arithmetic on at least the level of a two-year-old child," said researcher Elizabeth Brannon...