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...morning, and the day is cold and rainy--conditions that, biologically, make it nearly impossible for the average teenager to function. Yet the 10 boys and eight girls who pour into the first-period Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus class at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, N.J., seem remarkably alert. Maybe it's the influence of Victorina Wasmuth, their peppy, diminutive math teacher, who exudes a boundless enthusiasm as she introduces a lesson on Rolle's theorem and the extreme-value theorem, which, she explains, are key underpinnings of calculus. Wasmuth tosses out problems for her students to solve...
Mass Ave. stood eerily quiet last night as students crowded in front of TVs to watch results pour in from the rest of the country...
Though still a largely underground band, Death Cab is unavoidably reaching new territory, a strange land where die-hard fans sometimes run away and new pop fans pour in. Certainly there were many new fans at Tuesday’s show, but just how many and what that means is unclear. This next year is going to be a very significant time in Death Cab’s path, especially with rumors of major label activity that recall the recent mainstream leap of Modest Mouse. Small decisions at this stage can have major impacts. But if Death Cab can stay...
...LANCASTER, OHIO, A FAST-GROWING SUBURB OF COLUMBUS WHERE cornfields are giving way to subdivisions, the Bush re-election headquarters at 120 East Main Street ran out of yard signs after giving out 3,500 of them and is scrambling to get more. Each evening, volunteers pour into a nearby building to make more than 1,000 telephone calls--their share of the more than 30,000 that George W. Bush's campaign says its ground troops make in Ohio every night. When the sun comes up, the volunteers are out knocking on doors across Fairfield County...
...vanishing acts of the insurgents, having faced them in Najaf, Tall 'Afar and elsewhere. The 1/14 would follow the 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment, which would hit Samarra first, crossing a long bridge leading into the city to secure a staging area for the troops that would pour in afterward. Just past midnight on Friday morning, the 1/26 moved. The 1/14, not far behind, heard the firing...