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...highly effective tool, it requires greater personal involvement and a deeper understanding of the subject matter than most conventional teaching methods. To help make up for the shortage of professionals skilled in this technique, educators look to a new generation of computer-based teaching tools that work with students much the way a teacher does, walking them through incorrect answers to show where they went astray. The key to these new tools is the concept of apprenticeship. Says Lauren Resnick, past president of the 14,500-member American Educational Research Association: "Apprenticeship has the promise of building abstract abilities...
Fortune had eluded Layne Heath. His brick business in Fort Worth had gone belly up. He had tried construction work and humping freight on loading docks, but without graduating far beyond the minimum wage. So to nurse his bank account and a romantic ambition, Heath pulled out his typewriter and tapped out a novel based on his days as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. In March William Morrow and Avon Books paid Heath $300,000 for his novel, CW2 (after his former military rank, chief warrant officer, second grade). "Beats the brick business," says Heath. "But then, anything beats...
BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 5 (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces). Working with legendary producer John Hammond and pianist Teddy Wilson, Billie turned out some of her greatest hits in these 1937-38 sessions: He's Funny That Way, My Man, Nice Work If You Can Get It. All that and more on this outstanding digital reissue...
...doubt that he hoped someday to continue the family tradition. His political outspokenness got him thrown into jail four times, but each time he emerged with even greater popularity, until he became a symbol of the mounting opposition to the dictator. On Jan. 10, 1978, as he drove to work in his red Saab, two shotgun- wielding assassins blew him to bits. Says Jaime Chamorro, Pedro's brother and now business manager of La Prensa: "His death ignited the national insurrection against Somoza. It released 40 years of suppressed rage...
Until then, toilet paper will remain a rarity in city hall rest rooms. The city cannot even afford new bulbs for its traffic lights. Parking meters work, but nobody feeds them because there is no money to hire meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer...