Word: mesas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner, 42, a Mesa, Ariz., real estate agent...
...with an ordinary childhood. The son of a pipefitter, he moved with no particular distinction through his education. He recalls, with irony: "In a high school science class we took a straw poll on the subject of capital punishment, I voted in favor of it." Wilkerson dropped out of Mesa College in Colorado after one year, married, divorced and knocked about in a couple of ill-fated business schemes. He then went to work for Houston Businessman Don Fantich, who local police suspected was an operator in the penumbra of the underworld...
...Minorities to Engineering (PRIME) is a collaborative program involving 33 engineering and technological companies, 14 universities and government agencies, and 1,800 students in Philadelphia and Camden schools. It has succeeded in sending nearly two-thirds of its graduates on to math-or science-related college programs. In California, MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement), based at the Lawrence Hall of Science on the Berkeley campus, is also designed to encourage minority students with weekly study groups and summer enrichment programs. So far, it has sent 90% of its students to college...
...Some MESA students in the classes of Jaime Escalante know that one teacher rather than grand programs can make the biggest difference. Escalante, 51, a Bolivian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. speaking no English, is chairman of the math department at Garfield High School in the east Los Angeles barrio. With his support, 18 students decided to take the advanced placement calculus test, given to only 2.7% of college-bound seniors by the Educational Testing Service. Drilling them two hours a day after school and assigning four hours' worth of problems for every Saturday, Escalante mounted...
...Mesa, Ariz...