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...MATH...
...bubbles, do her homework, watch TV and cook your dinner. She was the babysitter. She was the ultimate teenager. She was the first full-time devotee of MTV. The babysitter encapsulated everything every pre-adolescent girl aspired to be. She studied big-kid subjects like foreign languages and textbook math. She was allowed to wear make-up--glossy pink lip gloss, mascara and blue eyeshadow that reached her eyebrows. Somehow her mother allowed her to have stretch jeans and stilletto heels worn with scrunch socks. She even had a boyfriend who'd pick her up when she was done making...
...Tuesday and Wednesdays, Pforzheimer residents help kids with math and English homework. They also teach interactive lessons in small groups of two to four students...
...nearly two-thirds of these projects' population, and many of them have fathers who are either missing, in prison or dead. The firemen, therefore, stand among a handful of male role models in this urban wasteland. On their days off, they drop by to tutor children in chess and math and to encourage them to stay in school. Most important, they offer discipline, tenderness and inspiration to a community where such things are in terribly short supply...
...months ago, Lee quit, and in the space of 24 hours went from corporate hotshot to math teacher on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She and her fiance Jason, 25, nest through weekends; a hot outing is likely to be a visit to a coffee bar with friends. This whole nesting thing, she says, "is about a simple question--What do I do that would make me happy?" She pauses as the sounds of ringing bells and laughing children rise. "I'm choosing a destination, and maybe it means I'll have fewer choices," she says. "But I think...