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...removes solvents--for every two students. In the past, many of the rotavapors were inefficient and did not function properly, leaving students waiting in line for their use. Other changes include the addition of new balances and melting point apparatuses, and each student now has his or her own sink, says Kammler. Eventually, students will be responsible for taking care of their own glassware as well...
...Pacific disaster was preceded by one in the North Atlantic. In July daring commando actions by Greenpeace activists scuttled Shell Oil's plans to sink the storage platform Brent Spar. According to the triumphant activists, the campaign saved the sea from pollution by 5,000 tons of oil. Last month chagrined Greenpeace officials were forced to admit that the potential environmental damage had been grossly miscalculated. The Brent Spar actually contained only 10 tons...
WHILE PUBLIC OPINION seems polarized between sink-or-swim nostalgics and politically correct diversitarians, serious research increasingly points toward a consensus: children learn English faster and are more likely to excel academically if they are given several years of instruction in their native language first. In a 1991 study endorsed by a National Academy of Sciences research team, David Ramirez, now a professor at California State University, followed 2,000 Latino schoolchildren. "It is a myth that if you want children to learn English, you give them nothing but English," says Ramirez. Both English-immersion and bilingual methods will fail...
...some people just seem to have a gift for living well; why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest; why we like some people virtually on sight and distrust others; why some people remain buoyant in the face of troubles that would sink a less resilient soul. What qualities of the mind or spirit, in short, determine who succeeds...
...Retired Persons. One health-care lobbyist told him he was too late. "We've been meeting with Gingrich every two days," he said. "They were the only game in town." So the Democrats have launched their own campaign. Taking their inspiration from the Harry and Louise ads that helped sink Clinton's health-care plan last year, the Democrats have rushed out their own commercials, in which a young couple worry aloud about the plan while the woman's frightened mother listens...