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Elkhart-based Damon Motor Coach's DayBreak gas model was the best-selling Class A motorhome in Canada in 2007, according to Statistical Surveys Inc. The company's Tuscany series was Canada's third best seller overall and tops in sales of diesel ...
2008-06-02 10:30:00
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More than 75 Newark high school students and teachers today probe the challenges and complexities of making medicines when they interact with research scientists in a roundtable discussion sponsored by R x eSEARCH, a new educational program about the ...
2008-06-02 01:48:00
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Like any middle school student, Slava Butkovich loves playing computer games. Except, this Sunny Vale Middle School eighth grader likes playing historical computer games. Games like “Civilization,” where she can start a country and watch it grow ...
2008-06-02 09:33:00
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N erd chic reached a new level when David Cook , a self-proclaimed "word nerd," won the " American Idol " contest. Since the creation of the Internet and the rise of Bill Gates , nerdiness has been a hip and ironic fashion choice. In urban enclaves ...
2008-06-02 02:38:00
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The study by think-tank Reform blamed decades of dumbing down in education for contributing to £9bn of lost potential as hundreds of thousands of teenagers turned their back on maths. The research said that GCSE maths had become little more than a ...
2008-06-02 07:17:00
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Mathematics must make the move from from geek to chic to increase its popularity and boost Britain's economy, a report has warned.
2008-06-02 06:17:00
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A few miles from Rome are the ruins of the old port of Ostia. Bread prices were so stable in antiquity that they were chiselled on to the stone wall of the bakery. Until this year, the idea of stable prices seemed equally indelible: powerful ...
2008-06-02 03:35:00
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Britain remains one of the few advanced nations where it is socially acceptable, fashionable even, to profess an inability to cope with mathematics. This can’t-do attitude to numeracy, cited most recently by Sir Peter Williams, who is leading a ...
2008-06-02 01:48:00
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Craig Venter first achieved world-wide fame - or, more accurately, notoriety - around a decade ago, during the race to publish the first complete blueprint for the human genome. The media portrayed him as the Bad Guy, determined to beat the publicly ...
2008-06-02 03:57:00
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A “lost generation” of mathematicians has cost the economy £9 billion, while GCSE maths has become a “pick ‘n’ mix” test rather than the key staging post it once was, according to a report. The decline in standards threatens the future ...
2008-06-02 04:54:00
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GCSEs are "considerably" easier than tests sat 50 years ago as questions are simplified to make them more relevant to modern teenagers, it said. Reform, an independent think tank, said the traditional emphasis on algebra, arithmetic and geometry has ...
2008-06-02 03:07:00
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YOBE State Governor, Senator Mamman Bello Ali, has promised to send more primary school teachers for training at the National Mathematical Centre in Abuja. He made this known while receiving the Director General National Mathematical Centre Abuja at ...
2008-06-02 03:35:00
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It is now "substantially easier" to obtain a C-grade GCSE pass in maths compared with 20 years ago, academics said. A report by the think-tank Reform published today reveals pupils only need 20 per cent for a C-grade pass in the top-tier paper ...
2008-06-02 04:04:00
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School mathematics exams in England have become easier, shallower and less demanding, according to a think tank. Analysis of public maths exam papers taken by 16-year-olds between 1951 and 2006 shows standards have declined markedly, the report for ...
2008-06-02 05:23:00
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What is the point of studying mathematics? I have never used a sine or cosine in my everyday life. And solving quadratic equations? Although a footballer subconsciously solves one every time he works out where to stand to volley a free kick, I don't ...
2008-06-02 04:47:00
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