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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Resistance has resulted in pitched battles at school-board hearings and within academia over the future of U.S. math education. Educational scholar E.D. Hirsch Jr. says opposition to the newest math is "suddenly making people wake up and say, It doesn't work, it doesn't comport with reliable theories, and we're making a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS IS MATH? | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...first Indian scholar to be named as head of a Cambridge college, Sen will succeed mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah in January, at which point Sen will abdicate his University professorship...

Author: By Suzanne F. Gauron, | Title: University Professor to Leave Harvard | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...Newspaper's report draws together three threads of scholarship to document the fakes: the latest edition of The New Complete Works of Van Gogh; the work of German art historian Roland Dorn and Zurich based dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt; and a detailed study of Van Gogh's drawings by Dutch scholar Liesbeth Heenk...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Van Gogh Painting May Be Forgery | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...with the series. What inspired him to set an epic in this period was his reading of Thomas Cahill's 1996 best seller, How the Irish Saved Civilization, a book about Celtic monks who transcribed important Latin texts for posterity. (However, in the first few episodes, at least, no scholar-monks appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANY SWORDS BUT NO EDGE | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

Despite the belligerent objections of James Woods' National Security Advisor, the political phenagling of Ellie's nemesis, the President's opportunistic national science advisor David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), and the gentler opposition of religious scholar Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), spiritual mainstay of the White House and Ellie's romantic interest, she is selected as the transportee. After "wormholing" breathlessly through hyperspace, what she finds at the end of her journey is no little green men but a quasi-meta-physical Carl Saganish lesson (small wonder, since the movie was co-produced by the late Sagan and his widow...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Making CONTACT | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

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