Word: taught
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole reason [the problem sets] are hardis that you have to work stuff out for yourself,"he says. "Some new theories are not taught inclass, and you have to work through them to makethem understandable. It's a lot, it takes time,and it's hard, but it's interesting, and that'swhat makes it worth doing," Speyer says...
Lasaga is married with two grown sons. Asprofessor of geology and geophysics at Yale,Lasaga taught three classes, was involved inresearch and served as the director of graduatestudies for his department...
...night he had become the first player to hit 50 homers for three seasons--and McGwire never mentioned it. "I was watching SportsCenter, and I said, 'He didn't even tell me,'" Milner says. McGwire also coped with the stress through a mysterious method of visualization that Dickson taught him, which sounds a lot like phone sex but less fun. "Over the phone before he goes to sleep, you just tell him stories and take him out of it," she explains...
...will have to sit through a trial that may end up featuring the detailed testimony of Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp. When Representative Houghton had his meeting with the President on Wednesday, he gave him a gift, a new biography of Isaiah Berlin, the late political thinker who taught at Oxford University when Clinton studied there in the late '60s. One of Berlin's favorite epigrams was from the philosopher Immanuel Kant: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can be made." He was right...
...developments stunned the kids' parents. Says Sandy Morris, Brad's mom: "Our first response was, 'Oh, yes, isn't that nice. But the kids kicked us in the behind and taught us something. Adults get complacent and think tragedies like Sudan are too far off to do anything about. But children don't get overwhelmed by the big picture. They just say, 'Go for it!'" Says Alphonso McDonald, 9, who emptied his penny jar regularly: "I was shocked that the grownups weren't doing anything about this...