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Classes at Packer are undeniably different, but if you can see past the strangeness, you will see some remarkable things. Drop by Mr. Rush's senior art-history class some morning. Rush--a dapper, manic teacher who claims he understands absolutely nothing about wireless technology--leads his students through a brisk review before an exam, pulling images of Greek urns off the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. He makes extensive use of what's called a Smart Board, a high-tech blackboard that throws a giant version of Rush's laptop screen on the wall. It's touch-sensitive...
...fetch a rain-soaked newspaper--and getting an acorn or two wedged between my toes. Instead I jumped onto the Web, touched base with time.com scanned a few hot blogs, checked out the competition and clicked to espn.com for box scores. All without missing a beat or a drop of breakfast cereal. What I did miss, however, was the screaming of an infant in her high chair and the smoke of a small fire in the toaster...
...International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sri Lanka. The combination of high governmental spending on defense and the civil service along with a low revenue base meant that national debt had swelled to alarming levels by the time Wickremesinghe came into office in late 2001. Thanks in part to a drop in defense spending, he has since made significant progress in balancing the country's books, slashing the budget deficit from 11% of GDP in 2001 to less than 8% this year. Milinda Moragoda, Minister for Economic Reforms, says the government has also opened up the state-controlled insurance and gasoline...
...SINGAPORE: Atlantis Yachts For up to 12 passengers, a 65-ft. superluxurious Italian-built yacht can cruise past the skyline, around the leafy southern islands and drop anchor for swimming and a picnic ashore. You can even take it to Malaysia for golf...
...loss at Harvard Stadium in 1996. It was not only the first Harvard loss of the season but also the Crimson’s first to an unranked team since a 34-24 loss to Yale in 2000. Ranked No. 16 this week, Harvard will likely drop out of the polls with this weekend’s defeat...