Word: units
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...teacher must feel confident in the subject to veer from the rote learning that turns so many students off. At Frick Middle School in Oakland, Calif., science teacher Caleb Cheung turned seventh-graders into inquisitive crime-scene investigators when he introduced a unit last fall on cells and microscopes. Students arrived in class to find an empty birdcage and a ransom note--someone had apparently kidnapped Cheung's pet doves, Herbert and Angel. For the next six weeks, the young detectives analyzed fingerprints, interviewed witnesses and compared hair and fabric samples under microscopes to find the perpetrator...
...cuffed and with sacks over their heads provoked outrage in Turkey, where nationalist sentiment runs deep. The film proceeds to pile on fiction. Turkish intelligence officer Polat Alemdar heads to north Iraq to seek out the U.S. troops responsible and avenge Turkish honor. There he discovers a rogue unit of U.S. soldiers led by officer Sam William Marshall, played by Billy Zane. After much blood-letting, Alemdar and his men bond with Iraqis and eventually end American atrocities there, killing Zane in the final scene. "I was fascinated by a compelling character who gave a platform to a controversial point...
...because I couldn’t see anything—especially five-on-three, when they have so much traffic in front of the net,” Martin said. The Bulldogs’ goal tied the game just fewer than 10 minutes after the Crimson special teams unit started the scoring with a perfectly executed play. Freshman Sarah Wilson found classmate and linemate Jenny Brine, who shoveled off a quick pass to senior Jennifer Raimondi. Raimondi’s quick one-timer caught Yale’s goalie Sarah Love off-guard and gave Harvard its first goal since...
During the key first period, Clemis also stopped all 10 attempts that Harvard managed on its four powerplays. The Crimson special teams unit had been the second best in the nation entering Monday night’s contest...
...what form? The other pieces, among them a war memorial, a giant dung beetle and a life-size boar, are less valuable and have nothing in common except that they are big, unguarded - and made of bronze. Vernon Rapley, head of Scotland Yard's Arts and Antiques Unit, fears the worst. "They've either been rapidly exported or melted down" - a thought Rapley finds "quite repugnant." But the market price for raw copper has leapt 170% since 2003 to more than $4,800 a ton, driven by demand from countries like China and India. And with scrap prices also...