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...Contrast the poor teaching and unfriendliness Clateman describes in introductory Physics with the almost gentle treatment of the subject offered by Dudley Herschbach in Chem 10 or Karel Liem in Biology 2. Among the best facets of their approach is providing information on the current research frontier and applications of the material being covered, something totally lacking in Physics 55 (now Physics 12), but essential for maintaining student interest...
...virus spreads easily, traveling in droplets spewed into the air by sneezing and coughing or through contact with mucus on hands or objects. Transmission is faster in places with poor ventilation, such as rooms with closed windows, crowded classrooms, nursing homes and public transportation systems. On planes, where the air is continuously recirculated, just one flu- ridden passenger can infect all the rest...
What the Bushies' body-count mentality ignores is what almost everyone professionally involved with Head Start knows: the program's quality is falling, and will fall further if 180,000 slots are added without improving inadequate facilities, poor transportation and abysmal salaries. Teacher retention, especially, has become a megaproblem, for the simple reason that almost half of all Head Start instructors earn less than $10,000 a year; thus they are continually lured to public school jobs that average more than $28,000 a year...
...sins of corporate America and to sell tickets to his movie. Roger & Me proves that with a lot of talent and a bit of righteous self-promotion, you can be a town scourge and a local hero. You can also become a former member of the working poor. Moore made his film for a pinchpenny $260,000 and sold it to Warner Bros. for $3 million. What's bad for General Motors is good for Michael Moore...
Such intense loyalties are probably a product of Safire's childhood. The youngest of three sons of a successful New York City thread manufacturer, Safire was just four years old -- and his brothers were teenagers -- when his father died of lung cancer, leaving the family not poor, but pinched. (Their name was Safir, but the columnist added a final vowel in the 1950s to make spelling match pronunciation.) "Those were tough times," says Leonard Safir, who recalls that his brother Bill "was bounced around a lot as a boy." According to Janklow, Safire's mother taught her sons...