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...English classes, students assemble poems, plays and essays for their portfolios. They also submit to a 45-minute creative-writing session to determine how well they perform under pressure. Mathematics is a tougher challenge for all concerned. Thus far the attempts to build a portfolio include everything from exercises in factors and fractions to mind-stretching essays on the color of mathematics and the composition of letters to Albert Einstein. But, says Ann Rainey, an award-winning eighth-grade math teacher in the Shelburne Middle School near Burlington, "we still don't know what a math portfolio should...
...such techniques would not be perfect, says a U.S. official, "chemical weapons are so difficult to control that any slowing down of the train is valuable." The same could be said of nukes. Although it has prevented diversion of materials from peaceful uses, the IAEA hasn't solved a tougher challenge: keeping book on the secret bombmakers...
...wonder the competition for these docile consumers is growing far tougher. Powerful new players are entering the business, and the result is some welcome relief for the consumer. Card issuers are changing the rules as they go, cutting prices, waiving fees and offering an inventive array of new services. "The heat is on in the credit-card industry," says Robert McKinley, publisher of Bankcard Update, an industry newsletter. "Nonbanks are finally putting pressure on the banks to lower their rates...
American representatives deny they will use the catastrophe to drive a tougher bargain. But U.S. Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has questioned "the cost of our obligations to the Philippines should we continue to use these facilities." That could bode ill for Manila, which had hoped for hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance in return for renewal of U.S. base rights...
Romanian adoption authorities now want to implement a tougher law, expected to be passed by parliament this week. The measure punishes baby selling with prison terms and requires that all foreign adoptions be approved by a special committee. Declared the Foreign Ministry: "The selling and buying of children has to stop...