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...whom are at a fifth-grade reading level, receive a course description and sign a contract stipulating that they understand what is expected of them. Most have a study plan designed just for them, which means teacher Goldhaber instructs five students in as many subjects at once. While the method appears old-fashioned, classroom dialogue seems drawn from experimental theater. At his right hand, Goldhaber pores over pictures with one student, saying, "Yes, this is an ion, but is it just an ion or a hydroxide ion? Think about it." He asks the student on his left, "Do you really...
...people we enjoy being with, and that cuts across any social, economic, religious or ethnic barriers," one would-be fraternity founder told The New York Times last week. The student's sentiment--echoing a familiar plea at this large College--is natural, even admirable, but his would be method is not. Pursuing the end of social contact, fraternities create the illusion of trading in the difficult, human endeavor of understanding each other in the real world for the phony bonhomie of a club...
...Danehy method, however, may have a few problems of its own. As Councillor David E. Sullivan immediately commented, a federal criminal statute prohibits anyone but postal employees from placing any material in mailboxes...
...Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played the Albert," says Woody...
Ramsey was awarded half of the $470,000 prize for his contributions in pioneering a method of measuring the minute movements that occur inside atoms. Ramsey's so-called separated oscillatory fields technique did not just become a valuable scientific tool; it also provided the basis for modern-day atomic clocks. Like the ticking of a pendulum in a grandfather clock, the rapid-fire (9,192,631.770 times a second) oscillations of cesium-atom nuclei, spinning like tops inside a magnetic field, can be used to pace off time...