Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adequate education. "The Federal Government has a profound responsibility to these children," says James Lyons, chief lobbyist for the National Association for Bilingual Education. But critics hotly question whether such expenditures are worthwhile. They also challenge the role of the Federal Government in favoring or heavily funding any particular method of instruction, much less sponsoring cultural-maintenance studies. "The intent of bilingual education has been distorted into a vehicle for a bicultural approach to education," says Robert Sweet, a member of the White House Office of Policy Development...
...involving 1,800 Chinese students in San Francisco, confirmed that the district had to provide for the education of the English-deficient students; but the court did not say how. "Teaching English to the students of Chinese ancestry who do not speak the language is one choice" in the method of instruction, wrote Justice William Douglas in the court's unanimous decision. "Giving instructions to this group in Chinese is another. There may be others...
...deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II. Earlier, experts had found that the handwriting on documents discovered in Brazil corresponded to Mengele's, and that photographs found in the Bossert home matched old pictures of the doctor. Most telling of all, an advanced method of matching the reconstructed skull against old photographs convinced the investigators that they had found their man. "I came here not knowing whether it was Mengele," said U.S. expert John Fitzpatrick. "I go home fully convinced that...
Before compact disks came along, the method of capturing and replaying music had changed little since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. Conventional records store sound in the form of tiny waves cut into vinyl grooves. When a diamond or sapphire stylus passes over them, its vibrations create a tiny electrical current that is converted back into sound. Tape players work in a similar way, reading sound from magnetized particles on plastic ribbon. Both methods involve a process known as analog recording, in which the music is represented as a physical replica, or analog, of the original sound...
...Mengele maintained some method amid his madness. A few survivors remember him as a man of sobriety and serenity, attending to his research with careful scientific discipline. He was also given to occasional flourishes of gallantry: after transferring a pregnant Jewish doctor to Cracow to do research for him, Mengele sent her flowers upon the birth of her son. Yet his sadism could cause even his colleagues to shudder. According to Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish prisoner-doctor forced to act as his assistant, "in Mengele's presence, the SS themselves trembled...