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Ruhab Zehra Zaidi, the 13-year-old sister of Sarim Zaidi, says she's very scared at the Islamabad Model College for Girls and finds it hard to study her favorite subject, math. "Anything can happen at any time," she says, her big eyes widening further. "This disturbs my studies very much." "I am upset about all this terrorism," says Hamza Baig with intensity. The teenager from the Overseas boys college wants to make sure his words are clear: "We feel very scared when going to school, thinking today may be our last." Like many students, Baig stayed home...
When differentials could become a hundredfold or even far more—and as investment banking and similar firms started actively to recruit young Rhodes Scholars who earned degrees in math, physics, and even history, English, and theology—the yawning prospective-wealth chasm became impossible for many to ignore. Even for a few of those most deeply committed to other, more public-spirited pursuits—whether in laboratories, classrooms, poor neighborhoods, charter schools, the media, or state legislatures—the lure of such rewards, especially as they are reasonably attainable for people of such high abilities...
Rock 'N' Roll has never excelled at math. "Two plus two always makes a five," says Radiohead, while Bono famously counts, "Uno, dos, tres, catorce." So why expect better from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Founded in 1983, the Hall celebrated its 25th anniversary in October 2009 with two all-star concerts at Madison Square Garden. An edited version will be televised on HBO on Nov. 29. Cutting shouldn't be a challenge...
...feces, electrocuted prisoners and drained blood to extract confessions. During the trial, Duch, 67, said that Cambodians should hold him to the "highest level of punishment." But he also begged for forgiveness, saying he was only "a cog in a running machine." Duch's defense team painted the former math instructor as a mid-level bureaucrat who didn't personally torture anyone and was only following orders, and on Friday. Duch pleaded for the tribunal to release him.(See pictures chronicling the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge...
Research has shown that in the long run, immersion programs can provide cognitive benefits, including more flexible, creative thinking. Though students from the programs lag for a few years in English, by fifth grade they perform as well as or better than their monolingual peers on standardized reading and math tests. For multicultural families, the psychological boost can also be important. Lueth, a former teacher and manufacturing executive, co-founded the school as a way to expose her adopted Chinese daughter Lucy to her native culture. Lucy used to squirm when cousins asked why her skin color was different from...