Word: methodical
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That's the "when" part of the equation. Now for what you should do. There are three different ways to get screened for colon cancer. Which method you choose depends a lot on your wallet--and the level of risk you're willing to live with...
...veer to the right in order to shore up his nomination. Rather than lean to the far right, Dubya chose more of an all out sprint. This tendency of the Republican Party to force its candidates to move to the right during the primaries has been its method of choice in recent elections for political suicide in the general election...
...promising method is Success for All, a tightly scripted reading program that has spread to 1,551 elementary schools in 48 states. The brainchild of husband-and-wife researchers at Johns Hopkins University more than a decade ago, the program aims to get at-risk kids academically up to speed with 90 minutes of daily intensive reading. The founders specify that 80% of a school's teachers must vote to adopt the program by secret ballot. Once they do, Success for All micromanages everything down to telling teachers to write questions for the class on Post-it notes to themselves...
...into the district each year, many of whom are asked to teach subjects for which they were not trained. "As a new teacher, I like it because it does all the brainstorming for you," says Estes. And proponents point to higher test scores in schools that adopt the scripted method. But critics charge that it saps teachers and students of creativity and spontaneity...
...points out that other courses at Harvard don't have a sophisticated method for finding out just how much collaboration goes into a problem...