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Interactive video tutorials teach non-geeks how to set up HDTV, install a wireless home network or stream digital music from a PC to another room in the house. The Convince Me pages are geared toward the skeptical spouse. Visitors are invited to vote on which projects CNET's experts should tackle next...
Curran is willing to bend somewhat; he has offered not to teach sexual-ethics classes if the Vatican will settle for issuing a statement detailing his errors, but allow him to continue as a theology teacher. Mindful of the potential donnybrook if Curran is dismissed, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, head of Catholic University's board of trustees, has lobbied with the Pope and Ratzinger to accept such a compromise, so far to no avail...
Georgia, the only other state that measures its veteran teachers, does so by testing them not for general language skills but in the specific subjects they teach. So far, 49,000 have taken the Georgia test, and some 12% have failed. Here too the feeling is strong that the Texas approach was misguided. Said Lester Solomon, Georgia's director of teacher assessment: "Nobody in their right mind believes that [the Texas] test can measure a teacher's performance." --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta
Horowitz, when asked what is most important in his life, answers simply: "My wife and that I can still play, am still a musician." He continues: "I made only one mistake when we were married, and that was I did not teach her to play duets. Now I will correct that mistake, and we will play four hands together." Wanda looks at him, understanding this unspoken declaration of love, and appears content. "You're lucky," she tells...
...Eddie tame Vincent's spirit and polish his gifts, make him the sort of man on whom he can safely place a side bet? Not really. Well surely then, when Eddie starts training to go back into competition again, he will get a chance to teach Vincent some lessons in respect for elders. No again. We are not on Rocky's side of the street, but in Martin Scorsese country, where bent character, not sentiment, shapes destiny, and the best the struggling human spirit can hope for is a split decision...