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...director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
Since then he has tried to leave his top-flight academic grooming at Andover, Yale and Harvard merely on his resume, and tried his hand at Texan enterprises from oil to baseball...
While he claims Texas as his home state, the Connecticut-born Bush spent many of his formative adolescent years attending top-flight schools in the Northeast...
...longer, and the pay packages that land them will probably dwarf what will initially be given to Immelt. A signing bonus in the tens of millions of dollars? Instant vesting in stock plans? Huge guaranteed annual bonuses? A big chunk of the company? Such goodies are widely available to top-flight managers in today's mobile CEO sweepstakes...