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...Hidden in Plain View is the story of one woman's family," explains Tobin, a journalist and teacher, who said she first heard about the codes when she bought a quilt from a woman named Ozella McDaniel Williams at a Charleston, S.C., market in 1994. Williams told Tobin that for generations women in her family had been taught an oral history that stated that quilt patterns - like log cabins, monkey wrenches and wagon wheels - also served as directions that helped slaves plan their escapes. Since she lacked historical data to back up Williams' claim, Tobin enlisted her friend Raymond Dobard...
...with up to 100 different goals for each grade level. Textbook publishers responded with textbooks that tried to incorporate every goal of every state. "There are some 700-page third-grade math books out there," says N.C.T.M.'s current president Francis (Skip) Fennell, professor of education at Maryland's McDaniel College...
...least invasive dermatological treatments is GentleWaves, an FDA-approved technique developed by Virginia Beach, Va., dermatologist Dr. David McDaniel. GentleWaves, a 45-lb., 15-in. machine with two panels consisting of 2,000 tiny light-emitting diodes, flashes an amber light at a patient's skin for 35 painless seconds. Cells aren't damaged, as in some treatments, but they are energized, says Dr. McDaniel. The result is that the skin, over time, produces more collagen, a protein that disappears as we age, and less collagenase, an enzyme that degrades collagen. "Photo-modulation uses light to prevent, heal and reverse...
...tradition of awarding black actors for fulfilling clichéd roles—when it awards them at all—is one that can be traced back to over 75 years ago, when, as George Clooney noted on Sunday, it “gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theaters.” While Clooney undoubtedly meant this observation as praise for the Academy’s boldness, McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress win was actually an affirmation of the sexless and happily subservient mammy role that...
...specifically designed to help the military 'regain our bearings.' Says he: 'TODAY'S RANKS ARE FILLED WITH OFFICERS WHO HAVE BEEN WEANED ON SLOGANS AND FADS OF THE SORT PREACHED IN THE BETTER BUSINESS SCHOOLS?that rational managerial concepts will cure all evils' ... Says Air Force Lieut. Colonel Norman McDaniel, a fellow P.O.W. of Stockdale's and now one of his students: 'A lot of training in the military tells you how you should act, but it doesn't give you the why. We're at a stage of moving from responding to what other people tell...