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...spent the next five months virtually alone, reading Russian novels, writing a math textbook and leaving his cell for only one hour a day. His arms and legs in chains, he was allowed to kick a soccer ball around a small exercise area. The restrictions were eased in June, as both sides prepared for trial. "This has been such a strange, surreal experience," Chung Lee, the scientist's only son, told TIME...
...presidential candidates, you want to spend more money on education? You won't get many arguments - as long as the cash is flowing into teachers' salaries or textbook purchases, and not into the black hole of high-tech educational tools. That's the word from the Alliance for Childhood, a consortium of early development and education experts, which issued a report Tuesday that sketches a speculative link between increasingly wired classrooms and the rising incidence of childhood obesity and social detachment...
...market-wide, it's not a real fear yet. Is Uncle Alan running us aground now, after so many textbook turns in his years at the helm? Nah. Greenspan gets the benefit of the doubt, for a while. But they're a real jittery crowd...
...quibble is the exact future points of resistance on the upside and support on the downside. Is the pennant symmetrical, ascending or descending? Let them quibble. Suffice to note that as the range narrows, we get closer to declaring a winner in the bull-bear tug-of-war. A textbook reading, says Richard McCabe, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, is that by late August, the pattern will be broken, the Dow's new direction evident...
...smaller, and thus more intimate, than many other classes-especially within the Core Curriculum. Unfortunately, I managed to find a particularly nasty example of a new course. The second two-thirds of the course were poorly organized, the hour-an-a-half lectures seemed endless, and there was no textbook to accompany quantum theory material about which physicist Richard Feynman admitted, "Nobody understands...