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...parents hoped to give Bush a new start when they transferred her to the much smaller Bishop Neumann, where the student-to-teacher ratio is just 13 to 1. But the teasing there was just as bad. According to Bush's lawyer George Lepley, the trouble peaked in recent weeks when Bush attempted to make peace with Marchese, who, Lepley says, was tormenting her. Bush sent Marchese e-mails and confided her troubles to her. Lepley claims that Marchese then passed those secrets along to other students. "She was betrayed," says Lepley, "and her intimate feelings were revealed for others...
...Wednesday, March 14--3/14 1:59--the world celebrated Pi Day. Yet the holiday, which remembers one of the oldest and most fundamental ratios in mathematics, was in fact celebrated only by a sad few. Across the city, lonely revelers--careful not to be seen together, lest their full nerddom be revealed--raised their tankards 3.14 times in silent commemoration. The Mathematics Department held a pie-eating contest, only perpetuating the trend that remembers our most famous ratio only through popular baked goods. I did not attend out of protest...
...politics simply do not mix. There could be no grandiose pronouncements, no claims that Pi Day is as American as mom, the flag and apple pi; the ratio, after all, belongs to the world. Legislators write home about how they were tough on crime, or saved the federal linoleum subsidy; any Congressman who told his constituency about his sponsorship of Pi Day would be laughed out of office. (Unless his constituency were entirely composed of mathematicians, in which case he would be anointed king...
...falls by the wayside, what then? No other common mathematical constant has such holiday potential. Euler's constant e (2.71828...) would be blocked by the arbitrary constraints of the calendar; it could be neither Feb. 71 nor Feb. 7 at 1:82 p.m. The same goes for the Golden Ratio, 1.618... There will never be an i Day, and although we will have an Aleph-0 Day, it won't come for quite some time...
...McComb, where 90% of students are poor enough to qualify for a free lunch, the schools enjoy a comparatively low student-to-nurse ratio of 500 to 1. "You can have all the bells and whistles as far as technology and facilities go," says superintendent Pat Cooper. "But if at the beginning of the day you start with an unhealthy child, there isn't a lot of learning that can go on." McComb health coordinator Norma Krapac and her staff sought to deal with a growing asthma problem in the district by teaching students about what triggers their attacks...