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A woman once asked me to lunch to discuss a book idea she had. "Slot machines have this aura, this mystery," she said. "I want to capture the mystique of slot machines." What slot machines really have, I told her, are mathematics and electronics. The ...
2008-10-09 01:28:00
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Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: VSEA) is a supplier of ion implantation equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips. Varian Semiconductor designs, manufactures, markets and services semiconductor processing ...
2008-10-09 02:54:00
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KAUKAUNA — It's as old as the character lesson one can draw from the fable about George Washington admitting he chopped down a cherry tree. Character education has always been present in schools, but a new report card system for children in ...
2008-10-09 02:04:00
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I'm not going to pretend I understand it. The credit crunch makes not the slightest bit of sense to me. Every time I open a newspaper, or click on to a news website, I am hit with the sort of blind panic that comes from thinking: "Bloody hell, I seem ...
2008-10-08 10:58:00
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Paul Fieldhouse Fenton, a World War II veteran, teacher, and investment manager, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at his Woodstock, Vt., home on Sept. 28. He was 85. Mr. Fenton was born in Morristown, Pa. He ...
2008-10-08 09:32:00
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"Bailout czar" Neel Kashkari arrives on Capitol Hill last month. The 35-year-old former space engineer and Wharton MBA is head of the Treasury Department's new Office of Financial Stability. WASHINGTON — In a way, Neel Kashkari's job has always ...
2008-10-09 12:45:00
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A recent ICM poll makes for very interesting reading . The survey of 192 Labour-held marginals suggests that Labour is set to lose 164 of them to the Tories at the next general election. However the mathematics – as Mike Smithson over at ...
2008-10-09 12:38:00
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All it takes to understand the Predators' focus this season is a working knowledge of mathematics.
2008-10-09 12:24:49
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This is an opportunity for an outstanding Mathematics teacher who is or has aspirations to become an Advanced Skills teacher, joining a committed forward thinking, well resourced Mathematics Faculty in our good and improving 11-16 school.
2008-10-08 11:33:54
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With childhood obesity expanding to epidemic proportions in the United States, educators, researchers and health practitioners are actively seeking to identify effective means of addressing this public-health crisis.
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(AP) -- Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.
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