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All too often a leap of technology — or a shift in medium — results in the mundane becoming a collectible. A rather recent case in point would be the Bakelite phone, that heavy, brittle black contraption with the quaint revolving face with ...
2008-07-13 05:10:00
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MANILA, Philippines—Let me start by sharing that I never took my studies seriously in my elementary, high school, and college years. All that was required of me by my parents was a diploma. I did the worst to ensure my graduation. I befriended my ...
2008-07-13 05:10:00
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The Chattanooga History Center, in cooperation with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will offer a series, A Short History of Chattanooga, at 7:00pm on Thursdays, July 17, 24, and 31. This program is being presented in response to the large ...
2008-07-13 03:51:00
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Thomas does not have any lineup tags. Baseball is my passion. My grandfather was Albert "Rube" Walker, who remained involved in the game of Major League Baseball for nearly 50 years as a player, pitching coach, and scout. Rube Walker was a catcher ...
2008-07-13 02:39:00
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ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - The National High School Athletic Coaches Association has selected Redfield's Fran Esser as the National Wrestling Coach of the Year. Over the years, Esser's cross country and wrestling teams have won 10 state championships ...
2008-07-13 04:27:00
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It was the scarcity of seats in medical and engineering colleges and the subsequent competition to get into these colleges that led to the inception of the concept of a coaching class. That was 55 years ago, when Mumbai got its first formal coaching ...
2008-07-13 12:16:00
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An icon whose look and style defined the fashion world of the 1940s, Dorian Leigh is widely regarded as having been the first "supermodel". In 1946 she appeared on seven Vogue covers, and over the next six years was on more than 50 covers of such ...
2008-07-13 04:05:00
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Henry Normal is half of one of the most successful comedy factories in UK television, Baby Cow, home to Gavin and Stacey, The Mighty Boosh and Nighty Night. The other half? Steve Coogan. A former co-writer on Caroline Aherne's The Royle Family ...
2008-07-13 03:58:00
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An icon whose look and style defined the fashion world of the 1940s, Dorian Leigh is widely regarded as having been the first "supermodel". In 1946 she appeared on seven Vogue covers, and over the next six years was on more than 50 covers of such magazines as Life, Look and McCall's. In the early 1950s, she featured in a series of famous images for Revlon's "Fire and Ice" campaign promoting ...
2008-07-13 04:26:05
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Xifan Liu pushes the limits, intellectually, physically and artistically. He is a physicist who teaches at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, a mountain climber who has conquered the Himalayas five times and a sports photojournalist who is on his way to cover the Olympics for North America's largest Chinese newspaper. Liu grew up in Beijing and moved to the United States in 1984 to ...
2008-07-13 05:46:14
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There's absolutely nothing new about the New Syllabus Mathematics textbook for Zimbabwean grade fours. It still has weird equations in it. Strange things like Z$1, and 20c and so forth. Many Zimbabwean children have never seen that type of money.
2008-07-13 03:47:22
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sexy_flying_yoda writes "I have just graduated from 3 years doing a BSc in Mathematics in the UK and will be beginning an MSc in Astrophysics and Astronomy in September. I have very limited knowledge in physics, and as my new course of study is basically physics, I'm currently searching for books that will enable me to get up to speed. What books would you recommend that would help a mathematics ...
2008-07-13 02:29:30
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The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the World Championship Mathematics Competition for High School students and is held annually in a different country. The first IMO was held in 1959 in Romania with seven countries participating.
2008-07-13 12:52:56
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Seymour Papert, "who was a professor of mathematics, education, and media technology at MIT, has devoted much of his career to learning: self-learning (he taught himself Russian) and learning about learning.
2008-07-13 11:37:09
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Incarnation School will be the site for a Camp Invention where campers will explore a planet, design and build roller coasters, and dabble in science, mathematics, history and the arts.
2008-07-13 05:16:38
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