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Throughout their years at Radcliffe, the women were urged to participate in the war effort. The reunion book records knitting sweaters for the Red Cross, performing in benefit shows, apple picking, watching for enemy planes, ecouraging the study of math and science and complaining in the spring of 1945 that too few undergraduates were doing was work...
History and Literature was a popularconcentration, especially exciting since Americanliterature had just been smuggled into the canon.Music I was the most popular course; fine arts waspopular; hardly any women concentrated in scienceor math...
...Speed (Die Hard on a bus), director John McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh turned the tables and appropriated a device sure to be used in this summer's Batman Forever. Like the Riddler, Vengeance's evil genius (Jeremy Irons) taunts the hero with word games, history quizzes and math problems -- riddles, see? This keeps the plot clock ticking as McClane and a good-hearted black racist (Samuel L. Jackson) dash around Manhattan at Irons' bidding...
...voting machines could also be used to modernize state and federal elections. Currently, the paper ballots from state and federal votes are counted at Harvard's Office for Information Technology (OIT), according to Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor and a member of the city Election Commission's technical working subcommittee on the computerization of the Cambridge elections...
...considering the many students who cannot afford an $80-to-$100 calculator. And the effort required to learn how to use it, some teachers believe, far outweighs the benefits. "The students grow dependent on a machine to do all the work for them," says Joan Harrison, who teaches A.P. math in Durham, North Carolina. "And I'm driven nuts because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others use ones belonging...