Word: algebraic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then last January, Leigh remembers sitting in algebra class and thinking: "Today is not a good day." That afternoon she swallowed 40 pills--20 aspirin and 20 Tylenol--and was hospitalized for eight days. After having clinical depression diagnosed, she was put on the antidepressant Effexor, among other medications. "Now, instead of the peaks and valleys," she says, "I just feel small waves of emotion. Things are a lot smoother...
...programs, the kids will tell you this is what they want: the sheer fun of the game, the tribal bond with teammates, the pride of being selected for a team, and the attention from busy parents who might not make as much of a fuss over a triumph in algebra or Spanish...
...school is." But the girls are his example of a new era. They used to be C and D math students. Now, after months at the math academy run by U.C. Irvine students at Willard, they are getting A's and B's and are ready for eighth-grade algebra, a prerequisite for the high school math courses necessary for college...
There is nothing token about the new outreach programs. They are not remedial but creative, even difficult. Dick and Jane have been replaced by Antigone and Pericles. Middle-school math tutorials go on for hours and progress to higher algebra. SAT drills are constant, and college essays are rewritten many times. "Its a huge difference," says U.C. Irvine student tutor Sonia Velazquez. "Kids know when it's remedial and they're being talked down to, no matter how nice you put it." But to be in the outreach program means to be special, bright, even cool. When Willard held sign...
...slip in and out of the U.S. with ease. "There are reports that he once left a car at the border" -- a decoy that made it look as though he was headed into Mexico -- "while apparently heading north," says Chua-Eoan. "He may also have tutored laborers in algebra, geometry and English." Exaggerated or not, the reports have all converged to make the capture of Ramirez/Resendiz one of the FBI?s top priorities...