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...ample opportunity to obtain and learn to operate the new calculators. Texas Instruments, the largest supplier of the machines, has helped finance training sessions for teachers and has provided some 2,000 calculators to 300 schools at a 25%-to-30% discount. Says Richard Schaar, a vice president at TI: "Equity is certainly a critical issue, but the graphing calculator is a relatively affordable solution to the need for equipment and technology in the classroom. Think about a computer system. How many graphing calculators can you get for the cost...
...then, he was secure-not that he wanted much. For the last 20 years of his life, Fairweather lived in a grass-thatch shanty he built for himself on Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland-no tropical paradise, but flat, mosquito-plagued and covered with ti-tree scrub. He had a scraggy beard and bright, China-blue eyes. His manners were polite and distant. He wasn't engaged in some Gauguin-based fantasy. He was simply living the way that suited him best, free from attachment. The locals thought he was a bum, a castaway, but his talent made...
...Mass held each Sunday in the adjacent parish gymnasium. It features folk music and an open dialogue between priest and parishioners during the homily. "When they started that folk Mass I was waiting for John Wayne to come down the aisle on a horse singing 'Yippee-yi-yo-ti-yay!' " grumbles Seitz, a member of the parish council. "They say, 'Oh, you old fogies, all you want to do is hear the 45-minute Mass and get out.' But we go to church to pray and meditate. We don't want to listen to pop music...
...applicants are given a Texas Index (TI) number, which is based on their undergraduate grade point average (GPA) and their Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) score. An extremely high TI number guarantees acceptance, and an extremely low TI number guarantees rejection, regardless of other factors such as extracurricular activities or quality of the college attended...
...university conceded, the TI number which ensures automatic acceptance for Blacks is below the automatic rejection number for white applicants...