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...certainly imperative that non-native speakers learn English in order to participate fully in American society. However, non-native English speakers also need to learn standard academic subjects in order to keep up with their native English speaking peers. Throwing them into math, science and social studies classes taught in English will hardly help the students learn English, and they will fall far behind in subjects where they lack the basic academic vocabulary...
Bilingual education is the best way to even the playing field between native English speakers and those who need to learn the language. Telling non-native speakers to sink or swim in classes taught in English does far more harm than good...
Pakenham, 69, a self-taught photographer, has already parlayed his arboreal love affair into a best-selling collection of portraits of 60 remarkable British and Irish trees. On the strength of that book's unexpected success (and the bbc series that grew from it), he has spent the past four years roaming five continents, 30 lbs. of camera equipment in tow, in search of the world's most fascinating trees. The result of his quest, a stunning volume titled Remarkable Trees of the World (W.W. Norton; 192 pages), arrives in bookstores this week...
Here are the details of the study: 266,000 female factory workers in Shanghai (where mammograms are rare) were divided into two groups. One was taught how to perform breast self-exams and reminded to do so regularly, while the other was never even taught. After 11 years, there was no difference in the groups' mortality rates due to breast cancer...
...taught at Harvard from 1987 to 1998. Since departing for Trinity, he has returned to Harvard frequently, delivering the Commencement address in 2000 and speaking at the Inaugural Lecture Series for the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study...