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...said the store will stock more used books from Barnes and Noble's textbook exchange, which is the largest such used book consortium in the country...
That's the textbook version at least. In practice, nature often kills hurricanes before they are born. For example, the intermittent warm-water current in the Pacific Ocean known as El Ni¤o generates westerly winds that reach halfway around the globe to disrupt cloud formations that might otherwise form hurricanes. In fact, says Colorado State's Gray, a major reason there have been so few hurricanes in recent years is that El Nino has continued on a more or less nonstop basis...
According to a new report on custom publishing on college campuses prepared by O'Donnell and Associates, a Connecticut-based market research firm, compilations of articles and textbook chapters like sourcebooks and course packs are the "only growth area" in textbook publishing...
...Vista, California, near San Diego, board meetings turned into all-night shoutfests when a Christian-right majority promoted use of a creationism textbook. Even more controversial was the board's rejection of two state grants, one offering $250,000 for a Big Brother-type program for lower-income kids, the other $400,000 for free breakfasts for poor children. One board member reportedly argued that the meals program had "more to do with welfare than education" and that children should eat breakfast with their parents. Voters reacted by mounting a recall campaign and found support among the area churches. "People...
Myra Sadker's Sexism in School and Society was the first textbook ever designed to help teachers overcome sexism in the American school system...