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Schoolkids aren't the only ones in Philadelphia praying for a good report card this month. Last fall, with most of the city's students testing well below state averages in reading and math, Philadelphia's assertive new schools chief, Paul Vallas, handed over control of 45 of the city's worst schools to seven private operators, including nonprofit organizations, universities and, most controversially, three for-profit companies. Now that the school year is ending, everyone is looking to see how the newcomers have done. Vallas has already given privatization a qualified endorsement by reaching agreements with...
...math whiz with almost total recall, Sosenko is legendary around the office for remembering practically every one of the several thousand patients he has seen--and details of their conditions--even if it's been 15 years between visits. He personally coordinates most of his patients' care, calling other specialists for tests and appointments. "Any wheezing? How about panting?" Sosenko asks Richard Escherick, 61, during an office visit. In his blunt but friendly style, Sosenko quizzes the man about his nighttime cough. "Is it like this?" he asks, making a hacking sound. "Or like this?"--and he rattles his throat...
...hooked once he tried it. He says the appeal of pool, which has surpassed even video games in his affections, is the adrenaline rush of the balls' "clacking." Chicago cop Debra Spraggins, who takes lessons with her son Nick, 12, says the focus on angles has helped him in math class, and the game has provided a refreshing way for her and Nick to spend time with each other. "Usually there's a hierarchy in our relationship. I'm the parent; he's the son," she says. "When we're playing pool, we're both equal. Sometimes he even teaches...
Hanover, the math and physics concentrator, says she was angry when last year the women at the dinners voted not to allow men to attend...
Finnigan—who graduated summa cum laude with degrees in math and philosophy from Boston College in 1999—attended Officer Candidate School the summer before his senior year, and was commissioned aboard the USS Constitution the weekend he graduated...