Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same with professional sports. My tenth grade math teacher in New York is the world's second biggest Dodgers fan (behind Danny Kaye). He was a big fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers back in the 1940s and 1950s, one of the New York liberals who started following the Dodgers after they signed Jackie Robinson...
...what about my math teacher? It tears at me to say he is fooling himself--since he did teach me how many degrees are in a triangle and other such trivia--but I think he is. When he roots for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he is rooting for a different team than that of his boyhood memory; the team he follows he has only been a fan of since Los Angeles bought itself a baseball team...
...demonstrated. But my bet is that Glaser will be the one to popularize it and make it work. That's because Glaser, 35, has been preparing for this moment since he was eight. He joined the computer revolution in third grade, when a teacher tried to keep the young math whiz quiet by marching him off to program a hulking mainframe. In high school, he and his pals jury-rigged a low-powered radio station that skirted fcc rules and broadcast student news and sports programs to the classrooms. In 1983 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lured the Yale grad...
Girl X was like a lot of young kids in her neighborhood. Relatives say the nine-year-old liked to play, skate and tutor younger students. Her favorite subjects at school were math and English. And she would frequently go up and down the stairs to visit her grandmother, Zater Bolhar, who lived just a few floors away in the same apartment building. But Girl X's neighborhood is the partially vacant Cabrini-Green housing project on Chicago's near North Side, and the child's current anonymity is an apt symbol for the forgotten lives--and forgotten crimes...
...forefront of educational efforts, especially for minority and inner-city students--encouraging them to get training and education in science and math," Counter said. "He is the spokesperson for a lot of scientific organizations that have these same goals...