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...English with a couple of Spanish words thrown in ("Do you have cold cerveza?"). Others are basically Spanish in structure with Hispanicized words borrowed from English ("Donde esta el vacuum cleaner?"). The confluence of the two languages is also producing new verb forms that are not found in any textbook. "Quieres monkear?" is one way of saying "Want to hang out?" Borrowed from the slang infinitive "to monkey around," the Spanglish verb monkear is used in the same way as truckear, which refers to working around trucks, shopear (i.e., at the market) and mopear (the kitchen floor...
...development at Fairchild Camera & Instrument, he joined Intel (1984 sales: $1.6 billion) in 1968 shortly after it had been founded by two Fairchild alumni. He was named president in 1979. Despite his business success, Grove was always attracted to publishing. He has written a book on management and a textbook on semiconductors. His articles have also appeared in FORTUNE, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Last summer at a party during the Democratic Convention, Grove revealed to Mercury News editors his yen to write a regular column. He reports that the editors picked up the offer before...
Next fall, Boyum, head section leader for Quantitative Reasoning this year, plans to co-author a statistics textbook. "It definitely beats a job and most important lets me set my own hours so I can play squash," Boyum says, citing plans to play on the professional squash circuit...
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN eighth grade social studies and adulthood, America grew to like history. Not the textbook kind or the obscure Robinson Hall kind, but the kind that makes a good TV miniseries. As Barbara Tuchman '33. Gore Vidal and James Michener all know, when the truth is written well, it can be more fun--if not stranger--than fiction...
...With more interesting curricula, more students may be interested in business and educational careers that involve math and science," said Merseth, who has authored several math textbook...