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...shortage of university-educated instructors means that the higher grades suffer the most. Najeeba Behbood, 26, an 11th-grader at Karokh High School, was lucky to land in a chemistry class taught by a former college professor. Even then, the course was pure theory: with no laboratory, the teacher had to make rough drawings on the blackboard to demonstrate the use of cathodes and anodes in producing electricity. But Behbood is happy to be in the class at all--it was a struggle persuading her parents to permit her to attend, because the professor was male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Girl Gap | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...love. Minutes seem to creep and fly at the same time. We get lost on the way home, thinking of the next date. Music cries out to us alone, and the full moon winks our way. Long after other memories fade, the recollection of love lingers. It's pure magic. Or at least that's what we like to tell ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romance Is An Illusion | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...science you can’t give great salaries, you can’t live the high life, but what you can have is complete creative freedom.’ And that’s something he held to with everyone in his sphere. He was just pure passion, pure curiosity. He loved to share and loved to teach.” Ingber is the Judah Folkman professor of vascular biology in the Department of Pathology at HMS. Folkman’s wife, Paula, said in an interview with The Boston Globe that the family is planning funeral services...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Folkman, 74, Broke Biomedical Ground | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Holocaust survivors, says Lee Schein, 77, who fled Rava-Ruska during the war as a 12-year-old girl, and now lives in Glen Ellen, California. "The Nazis offered the Ukrainians their own state if they worked with them, so they worked with them," she says. "It is a pure miracle that I got away." But Desbois insists he is not looking to assign blame. "I do not ask who is guilty and who is not guilty," he says. "I deal just with victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genocide's Ghosts | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...even saying the audio was faked. But the White House wasn't ready to let it pass. Besides the Pentagon's release of the footage, the White House called the run-in "reckless." It was a "dangerous situation," said President George W. Bush. "They should not have done it, pure and simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hormuz Hardball | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

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