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Moonlight Mile's finest performance is by a virtual unknown, Ellen Pompeo, as a bereft soul who becomes Gyllenhaal's love interest. Forging a deep bond with the actor and the audience, Pompeo is lovely, funny, intense--star quality in the making. Now let's see if she and Hollywood know what to do with it. --By Richard Corliss
...kids get older, visual representation is more important, and we've found that virtual manipulatives in computer programs are really popular with middle-school kids because they don't feel like it's baby stuff," says Shelley Goldman, associate professor of math at Stanford University's School of Education. Researchers have found that in some cases good software can do a better job of explaining a complex math or science problem to a 10-year-old than a person can. The trick is finding the right software...
...they have to solve practical problems, such as budgeting for band equipment, food and gas. "Real world" can also mean any scenario in which math or science decisions have lifelike consequences. For example, in the science program Zap! (Edmark/Riverdeep; ages 8 to 12; $30), cartoon characters in a virtual physics lab ask for help manipulating lasers, electrical circuits and sound waves...
...Meanwhile, Torricelli is gritting his teeth back in the Garden State, as he vows to "find a way" to transfer the contents of his considerable war chest over to Lautenberg's campaign. Elsewhere, Democratic congressional strategists are gleefully calculating Lautenberg's chances over virtual unknown Republican Doug Forrester - and New Jersey voters are praying they've seen the last of this whole mess...
...McDonald's to get cooking again, its marketing also has to be accessible. For the past several years, a virtual revolving door of corporate executives and an overreliance on regional campaigns have resulted in a diffuse, largely ineffective message. "Our marketing has become too democratic," says Irwin Kruger, a New York City franchisee, who this week will open his massive McDonald's in Times Square, complete with a video-laced menu board, flat-panel displays with subway maps and movie schedules, and his own creation, Mini McDonuts...