Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine the possibilities. No more would we have to suffer through hopelessly boring special reports on each state's primary. A lottery would inject the suspense and the excitement back into the process. Will the new President be Black or white, male or female, Jewish or Indian, rich or poor, intelligent or stupid? There would be no way to know, and this would make the system truly democratic...
...beauty of volunteering is that there are lots of different opportunities," says Mary Louise Piret, bilingual special education teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. She points out that the high school alone offers over 250 courses, and Harvard students help out in a wide variety of them...
Public service "is addictive," Shin says. "Once volunteers see what's going on, its hard to turn back." And Rogers says, "I just love it. You get a special feeling that you can't get doing anything else--there's no way you can get that feeling from...
...addition, Patterson says she plays a special role for female students. "I prefer to work with girls because I think they need special encouragement," she says. "It is important for them to see a role model who has had success in these `impossible' math and science courses and can show them that they...
This month the scholars will begin using a process known as digitization to put the pictures into a form suitable for computer analysis. In this procedure, a video camera is used to feed an electronic representation of each black-and-white photo to a special circuit board that can be placed inside an IBM-compatible personal computer. The circuitry divides each picture into tiny dots called pixels, much like the process by which old Hollywood black-and- white movies are colorized. But instead of assigning colors to each pixel, the computer assigns each dot a number according to how light...