Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weld has a new emergency allotment for education that we wouldn't qualify for," Rafferty says. The money will go to schools with a low cost-per-pupil ratio of "4000 dollars or less," according to Rafferty...
Unger, who was one of Kitingan's professors at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, says he concurs with Abelmann's opinion. Unger says of his former pupil, "He was a good student [who] had more first-hand knowledge. He had good academic preparation, [but] was very lively and interested in the topic, not a bookish type at all. That doesn't mean that he didn't read and think about his country...
...concentration to perfect, has revitalized the sport in another way. Now anyone in the top talent pool can win any given competition. Says American coach Carol Heiss Jenkins: "It will be more like tennis -- the winner will be whoever is good on that day." She should know: her pupil Lisa Ervin, a mere 14 years old, leaped her way into fourth place at last month's U.S. national championships. Another two points and she would have been the youngest competitor at Albertville...
...thought of a girl at a mirror realizing that she is now a woman. It seems that when Yamaguchi boards with Bezic to work on the routines, she ends the day in front of the mirror in her room, going over her moves. Her coach calls her an ideal pupil. "She never forgets any nuance," says Bezic. "Last July I asked her to look straight at the judges over her shoulder at a certain moment, and in January there she was on TV doing...
...gadget form. By looking at dials on a machine that measures skin temperature (stress cools, relaxation warms) or electrodermal response (similar to an electrocardiogram), the patient, wired with sensors, learns to control what is usually involuntary: circulation to the extremities, tension in the jaw, heartbeat rates and even pupil size (for advanced students). "If you studied yoga for years, you might be able to get the same effect," says Dr. Elliot Wineburg, assistant professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan...