Word: ranke
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American schools are already spending more than $5 billion this year on high-tech gadgets and training, and many educators think laptops rank among the most promising classroom gadgets. For one, they can be used by students in any class, at any time of day--a significant improvement, experts say, over the prevalent computer-lab model, where students spend an hour a week "learning computers" in a room full of desktops. Unlike clunky desktop machines, laptops are compact and portable, facilitating group work and field research. Knowing that all kids will have computers with them at home, teachers say, gives...
...writer steals from other writers," he says. "Got to be willing to steal, to pillage." Got to be willing, Russell Banks might say to himself, to be merely very good in novel after novel while critics use words like talented and valuable and consign you to the respectable second rank...
Feaster, Brandt and Miller rank first, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the Ivies in three-point field goal percentage. Brandt is also coming off of a career-high 18-point performance against Penn on Saturday, and she is shooting a stellar 50 percent from beyond the arc in Harvard's 11 Ivy games...
...players hope that a strong showing--along with helping their rank--might help earn them the respect and support their performance seems to warrant...
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