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Eleven-year-old Kayla Hager has been watching this election closely. After her teacher asked her class to study the presidential candidates, she quickly became fascinated by the race. "I wasn't all that interested before," she told me. "But now we've ...
2008-09-30 09:27:00
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I AM a mother of four children, two in university and two in secondary school. I am writing to ask the powers that be to get real. Year in, year out, parents lament, go to the newspapers, politicians, etc, when their children do not get Public ...
2008-09-30 08:01:00
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Wayne Bennett has helped nurture a lot of new growth in Putnam County over the last 30 years. And it hasn't only been in the gardens where he's well known to lend a green thumb or give advice to growers. The county extension ...
2008-09-30 09:48:00
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FAIRFIELD -- A career in aerospace engineering might provide Jimmy Pershken with a challenge. But Pershken, who is taking multi-variable calculus at Colby College, has plenty of time to think about a career. He's only a sophomore. In high school ...
2008-09-30 08:58:00
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Pupils are being forced to endure months of misery because of the pressure of sitting tests in English, mathematics and science, it is claimed. An analysis of 11-year-olds' work showed many had a "horrible" experience as they were forced to ...
2008-09-30 06:35:00
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Missouri schools take politics and economics lessons
2008-09-30 09:44:15
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Savannah native and recent Savannah State University graduate Stacy A. Cobb has been accepted for graduate school at Stony Brook State University located in Stony Brook, New York. Cobb was awarded a full $30,000 SBU fellowship for her duration of school. While at Stony Brook, she plans to receive her doctorate in applied mathematics and statistics. While attending H. V. Jenkins High School, ...
2008-09-30 09:27:44
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"Some of the country's 8,847 Roman Catholic schools have become refuges for Muslims seeking what an overburdened, secularist public sector often lacks: spirituality, an environment in which good manners count alongside mathematics, and higher academic standards."
2008-09-30 08:50:24
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Base running and base stealing would seem to be arts driven solely by a runner's speed, but there's more than mere gristle, bone and lung power to this facet of baseball -- there are lots of mathematics and physics at play.
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In last month's column, American Mathematics in a Flat World , I examined the implications of globalization for mathematics - how it is used in business, commerce, and society. As promised then, this month I take a look at the implications for how we ...
2008-08-04 04:44:00
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 30, 2008) — For years, physicists have been heralding the revolutionary potential of using quantum mechanics to build a new generation of supercomputers, unbreakable codes, and ultra-fast and secure communication networks. The ...
2008-09-30 04:55:00
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Obituary: Distinguished French mathematician and member of Bourbaki
2008-09-30 04:30:56
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Florence-Darlington Technical College’s Next Generation Tech Stars scholarship program recently received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
2008-09-30 02:40:42
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An anonymous reader writes "Cameron Freer, an instructor in pure mathematics at MIT, is working on an intriguing project called vdash.org (video from O'Reilly Ignite Boston 4): a math wiki which only allows true theorems to be added! Based on Isabelle, a free-software theorem prover, the wiki will state all of known mathematics in a machine-readable language and verify all theorems for ...
2008-09-30 03:42:58
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A diverse group of University of Houston students convenes in a large room. Each of them is united by one cause: food, fun and, more importantly, a quest for knowledge. The TeachHOUSTON program began in 2007 with the mission of training students to ...
2008-09-30 08:48:00
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