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...large classes. The results of this experiment “reportedly helped spur President Bill Clinton’s request for 100,000 new teachers to reduce classroom sizes,” according to The Washington Post.Mosteller also worked with Professor David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago to determine who had written 12 of the 57 Federalist Papers by calculating sentence length and the frequency of certain words. They eventually concluded that James Madison had written them.While Mosteller was a remarkable statistician, his daughter said he would possibly be remembered most for his role as a teacher...
...call Woody "Allen") enjoyed nothing like Elvis' celebrity, though the prototype "sick comic" had a unique notoriety. His corrosive comedy routines, and the occasionally raw language he used to make his satirical points, landed him in the docket on obscenity charges in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. "Factually, the show is indecent," he acknowledged. "The areas that I discuss are not pleasant. However, I do think they have the freight of substance." Dirty words or no, Lenny's real crime was criticizing organized religion in cities where many of the police, prosecutors and judges were conservative Catholics...
...size of a hardcover book. The FBI, U.S. Customs and Immigration and the Department of Homeland Security have already begun using the gadget to detect and identify chemical hazards, but it hasn't yet been implemented in airports. The TSA recently deployed two $160,000 explosives detection machines for Chicago's Midway International Airport, but those machines, known as puffers, aren't made to identify sealed liquids. The agency has yet to put into place FirstDefender devices, which cost about $30,000, though it now confirms that it is testing the FirstDefender. "Ports of entry need technology to identify dangerous...
...than their predecessors. And they're determined not to be defined solely by their race. The most prominent of those politicians is Illinois' Barack Obama, who is currently the only black Senator. There are no black Governors. Obama, a Harvard Law School grad who taught at the University of Chicago, has emphasized that his appeal is not limited to the black community. Ford, looking to join Obama in the Senate, has sought to distinguish himself from traditional black pols with his more conservative voting record. Dismissing a question about how his race might affect how he campaigns, he told TIME...
...those promises did little to allay oil traders, who frantically anticipate other potential supply disruptions in geopolitically strained locales from Nigeria to Venezuela to Iran. "We have problems all over the place," says Phil Flynn, senior market analyst and vice president at Alaron Trading in Chicago. "What happens when we have the next outage...