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...project was created by civil rights activist Bob Moses and is designed to teach college-prep level math to all students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incumbent State Reps. Hope to Avoid Upset by Youthful Challengers | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...full-time work since 1993, says, "We intimidate people who are younger than we are and who might be our boss. They see their parents, and if they've had a bad relationship with their parents, that counts against us. Secondly, the human-resources departments in companies do the math and figure out that in five to seven years we might be a burden on health or pension programs. There isn't much attention paid to the merit we can bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Unmasking Age Bias | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

GARTH DRABINSKY Broadway Impresario + Suspect Accounting = Dismissal. Could a creative type do all that math...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...THEODORE KACZYNSKI Math professor believes civilization has gone haywire. Writes unsigned article about it. Brother reads it. Thinks, "Sounds like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook: Is It Possible To Be Too Smart? | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

That proves only that Kieslowski was also an entertainer. The ambiguity and poignancy of each sketch show that he was always an artist. In Decalogue, One (Thou Shalt Have No Other God but Me), a math professor lives with his bright, loving 11-year-old son--a small boy who asks big questions about God and death. The father believes that everything can be measured, even the density of ice on the local pond. It will take a catastrophe to teach him that his logic has holes. But the episode's true poetry is in scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dazzling Decalogue | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

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