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Throughout most of the 20th century, the stream of cars rolling off Michigan assembly lines created jobs with high wages and schools with low expectations. When even a kid who dropped out of school early could look forward to a cozy middle-class living, mastering chemistry, geometry or geography didn't seem so important. But now, at the start of the 21st century, both the state's leading industry and its school system are at a crossroads...
...says Roy Pea, co-director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning. These might be the key theorems in math, the laws of thermodynamics in science or the relationship between supply and demand in economics. America's bloated textbooks, by contrast, tend to gallop through a mind-numbing stream of topics and subtopics in an attempt to address a vast range of state standards...
...lethargically paced drama ensues when Ellie discovers that the stranger with whom she has fallen in love is Hesione’s playboy husband Hector (Harry M. Adamson). It continues with a stream of visitors who continually add to the angles of a complex love triangle. But the true excitement lies not simply in Shaw’s plot, reminding one of “The OC,” but also in the idiosyncratic characters that the actors so vividly bring to life...
...punch her name into its search box, Technorati tells you the latest buzz about her career--and her adoption saga. "We look at the world in a different way from Google," says CEO Dave Sifry. "We're not a library. We're the world's biggest conversation stream, with millions of people talking...
Ruckus' technology also enables Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) services to stream television and video around a home. An alternative to cable and satellite TV that has barely left a mark in the U.S., IPTV is popular in Europe and Asia, where Ruckus partners with service providers. Lo says IPTV will gain converts in the U.S. "Right now we're slaves to cable and satellite TV," she says, "where you need to wait weeks for someone to check your wiring and then install cables. With IPTV you just buy a subscription, and it all works wirelessly...