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...Africa. "Whole math," says molecular biologist Michael McKeown, "means less material covered in less depth with less rigor." Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from the front. Not long ago, Jennings watched her daughter Sarah, a straight-A algebra student, reach for a calculator to find 10% of 470. "It made my blood boil," says Jennings. In response, she and other parents pressured the school district to offer traditional math...
...less constant, public parks have expanded their RV facilities to attract people who want the great outdoors without too much of the out-of-doors part. "People don't want to sleep on the ground as much as they used to," says Debbie Brunaforte, an RV dealer in Mesa, Ariz. "They don't want to spend an hour putting up a tent. You have a full kitchen and bathroom, and you don't have to pack...
Ranging from a remote mesa in New Mexico to a graveyard in Massachusetts, Hughes in this episode explores how religion has shaped American culture. He starts with 16th century Spanish missions, the sites of the first big cultural collision between Europeans and natives. It resulted in both the mass slaughter of the Indians and the beginning of an artistic melding of European and Indian art forms in the haunting, death-themed statuary known as the santos...
...page six, a sports brief announces "Mesa Returns, Indians Scalp Angels." Hopefully, the irony was not lost on the night editors of this issue. One can only grin and groan at the same time. --Larry...
BORN: Oct. 30, 1942, Washington EDUCATION: California State U at San Diego, B.A., 1979; U of San Diego, J.D., 1983 FAMILY: Husband, Robert RELIGION: NR MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Information-systems executive; lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 3755 Avocado Boulevard, No. 282, La Mesa...