Word: methodic
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Many schools use upperclass students this way. But Harvard has characteristically chosen this more expensive method to care for its young, the argument being that older, more experienced adults have more to offer-both in wisdom and in safety-to novice Harvardians...
...system he saw Frelimo use in Mozambique, organizing the population into a hierarchy of governmental committees to which members were elected as individuals, not party members. The U.S. accepted it when Museveni called this system an indigenous democracy, even when he won the presidency in 1996 by the same method of no-party elections. But last month Southwick blasted new legislation institutionalizing the system as "the functional equivalent of a one-party state." He is worried that the economically liberal President is moving toward political authoritarianism, making him "a bit dangerous" as a regional model...
When opponents of these currents are being polite, they call that kind of talk nonsense. And they have labels of their own. One is "whole math," a pejorative reference to "whole language," the controversial method of reading that emphasizes learning entire words and phrases over mastering phonics. Another is "new-new math," recalling the ill-fated New Math fad of the 1960s and '70s, which introduced millions of students to math arcana like set theory and congruences. (Remember those? Didn't think...
...face the camera can't stop watching. When she shows up in She's So Lovely to hear Penn murmur, "You're a very beautiful woman, and I haven't been around the kindness of women in some time," it's a sweet tribute from this generation of Method mesmerizers to the one who taught them...
...better method is to study individual sites--yes, that means hundreds of thousands of them, one at a time--and then place them on yes or no lists that can be updated as new pages pop up in the Web's endless sprawl. A program called CyberPatrol identifies 12 categories of troublesome material (violence, profanity, sexual acts and so on) that parents can block at their discretion. The software can also be adjusted for different age groups. "My six-year-old son doesn't need to know how to put on a condom," says CyberPatrol spokeswoman Sydney Rubin...