Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that some women, be they attorneys or judges, would like to think that the fact that they are women helps them to understand or appreciate cases more than men--and therefore a more just decision is reached. I don't think so," Packard says. "The individuals make a difference whether they are male or female...
...Pitts who led the way. A tall, warm welcome of a man, Pitts, 46, knew the neighborhood as no outsider could. He had grown up there, walked its streets as a city cop and volunteered in a local youth service agency. Over the years he had come to understand that all too often the poor in the inner cities live more like inmates than citizens. Liberty City had health clinics and community centers and every kind of social service agency. But it had no supermarket for 60,000 residents, and no new family housing had been built in 20 years...
...Suzanne Firtko, an architectural historian in New York City who invented the Street Sheet, instructions that direct homeless people to the nearest soup kitchens and clothes banks. She persuaded Du Pont to donate waterproof, tear- resistant paper, and designed the sheets with easy-to-understand graphics so the disoriented and illiterate could use them. The entire operation that first year cost $1,800. "Projects like mine become very expensive when they're done by established agencies," she says. "It's very cheap when you're doing it at your kitchen table...
This is classic instruction for Project STAR (Science Teaching Through Its Astronomical Roots), a program taught in 18 schools in 13 states. STAR is based on the premise that books are abysmal tools for learning science. "It's impossible to understand an astronomy diagram without using three dimensions at proper scale," says Irwin Shapiro, the irrepressible director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and the man who dreamed up STAR six years ago. "High school science textbooks are impossible. They are dense with concepts and jargon. No one understands what's going on." Adds Kenneth Mirvis...
...make her understand? Harvard is not comparable to other schools. We live differently, get treated differently and think differently. When people ask us what's so great about Harvard, we shoot back things like "Normal Mailer" and "Henry Kissinger...