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Assigned to TIME'S Science section for the past 13 years, Syd, like other staffers in our specialized departments, has had ample opportunity to be both pupil and teacher. She has worked on 17 cover stories, and this week's is her eleventh on space travel. Her job last week involved digesting and summarizing complex NASA flight plans, scientific studies of the moon and background dispatches from our own correspondents. After the story was written and edited, her task was to make sure that the dozens of facts and figures in it were accurate. Throughout, she kept...
...Riles would pay the preschool bills with money now spent on the twelfth grade, upending "the current inverted pyramid shape of school finance, where the lower the grade, the less money per pupil is spent." The biggest gainers, he thinks, might be disadvantaged students -and the taxpayers. "Prevention is cheaper than remediation," he says. "A dollar spent on the very young goes farther than a dollar for the not-so-young who are in remedial classes or on welfare or, indeed, on the 'Wanted' bulletins of post office walls...
...decades to come, Australia's development will be closely intertwined with that of Japan, and Australians are growing increasingly aware of that fact. Even now, the country's best secondary school, Geelong Grammar, where Britain's Prince Charles was once a pupil, is teaching Japanese to 200 boys. Japan is already Australia's second most important trading partner (after the U.S.), and that trade has quadrupled in the past ten years. But the nature and extent of the relationship are as yet undetermined. Writes Peter Robinson, the Sydney Morning Herald's specialist on Japanese affairs...
...except the serialists-and Stravinsky himself, whose genius never repeated itself. His earlier work had been marked by the colorful nationalistic flavor of his native Russian tradition. The son of famed St. Petersburg Basso Feodor Stravinsky, he was raised in an aristocratic and intellectual atmosphere and became a favored pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. His first durable score, the orchestral fantasy Fireworks, was written in 1908 as a wedding present for Rimsky's daughter Nadia...
When personal concern for players and firm judgment would have built respect, Munro's combination of af aloofness from the players and sentimentality have left him a coach without either the allegiances of a friend or a pupil...