Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will air 128 hours of sport and spectacle from Nagano, a record for the Winter Games. In addition, TNT will broadcast more than 50 hours on cable. Nagano is 14 hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast, so schedules will require some math. Opening ceremonies, for example, will start at 11 a.m. Saturday in Japan, but Americans will see them live Friday night...
Proponents of the English for Children initiative were buoyed by a recent Field poll showing that 66% of Latino voters back the measure. Among the supporters is Jaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles math teacher celebrated in the film Stand and Deliver. He has signed on as honorary chairman of the campaign...
...program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, non-western cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...
...sick to know what they are doing or what is best for them. But as last week's proceedings in the trial of the alleged Unabomber showed, the law doesn't quite know what to do with someone who may be both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys be forced to present a defense they think is virtually suicidal? If someone...
...Journal credited Princeton, the Ivy institution sharing the last place position in the quest for more black, female faculty members, with having "achieved far more success than Harvard in integrating its mainstream departments," pointing out that there are two black professors of math in tenure-track positions, while there are none at Harvard...