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...heaviest dose of instruction with real-world relevance is the Academy's innovative senior mastery process. The two-year seminar beginning in eleventh grade is both a tutorial on searching for a job and an exercise in self-exploration. Each student fills fat white binders with biographies, personal mission statements, lists of life and career goals, and assorted essays in which they articulate and assess their own strengths, interests and ambitions. A boy who wants to be a mechanical engineer composed an essay titled "How To Be A Better Me," outlining the steps he intends to take to "become successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a New Student in Michigan | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...troops are killed in greater numbers than anywhere else in Iraq. Since June, the U.S. effort to quell sectarian violence in Baghdad has drawn thousands of troops to the country's capital, where the world's attention remains largely focused. But outside of Baghdad, U.S. forces are suffering the heaviest death toll these days as they continue to wage a grim, uncertain struggle to defeat insurgents in the predominately Sunni province of Anbar. Tallies of the war dead from August to November show that more than two-thirds of the U.S. casualties in Iraq were outside Baghdad, with four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Dangerous Place in Iraq | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

Among the seven orcas who play Shamu in the famous killer-whale extravaganza at San Diego's SeaWorld, Kasatka is not the one to mess with - whether you're human or cetacean. At a mere 5,000 lb., she isn't the largest whale in the pod (the heaviest is 9,500 lb.), nor, at 30, is she the most senior. But she is what's called the dominant female. And in the matriarchal killer-whale society, that means she's the boss. On Wednesday, she decided to remind her trainer of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Punishment for 'Shamu' | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...Atomic number of the newest element on the periodic table. The number refers to the quantity of protons in the nucleus of the element-the heaviest ever detected .001 sec. Length of time that the element existed, according to Russian and U.S. scientists who said last week that they had created it in a particle accelerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...Atomic number of the newest element on the periodic table. The number refers to the quantity of protons in the nucleus of the element--the heaviest ever detected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 30, 2006 | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

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