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...educators at the Educational Development Center in Newton, Mass. With the help of a $4 million grant from the U.S. Office of Education, the group created a series of 65 TV programs aimed at eight- to eleven-year-olds-the age at which interest in math first begins to wane. Zacharias and his co-workers isolated five mathematical concepts rarely mastered by that age group: map making and scaling, estimating, measurement, decimals and graphs. Then the team planned Factory episodes that focus on each of these problem areas...
Active, successful, and well-respected in her "district" and in City Hall, Ackermann will have little trouble defending her candidacy. And, unless her political strengths wane suddenly, Cambridge is guaranteed her return to council chambers for yet another term...
With his boxing days on the wane, Wepner, 35, needed no coaxing. For the first time in his career, he could afford to train full time. He spent eight weeks near the Catskill Mountains under the watchful eyes of his amiably foul-mouthed manager, Al Braverman, and his trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free...
...Department of Corrections statistics show that work by therapists and non-disciplinary work by guards reduces recidivism rates; the Martinson report offers contradictory evidence. Gaughan points out that younger guards show more of a desire to help the inmates and calls them a new breed, but their enthusiasm may wane after years of work as corrections officers. Inmates do not always get along well with the few social workers and therapists, but on the whole they relate better to them than to the guards, who they know always have security foremost on their minds...
WITH A pair of C's, scholarship began to wane. Three years later, he was putting together a thesis with no work, using triple-spacing and a 45-space line. He even counted the title page and table of contents when numbering. None of his eight footnotes referred to books; his was what is euphemistically called a speculative work...