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BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Dishing over dessert — Retired Stetson University professor Bob Fort, left, talks with Stetson alumnus Michael Magarian and Fort's wife, Patty, as they linger at Cress Restaurant over pumpkin cheesecake. Each of the three ...
2008-09-27 02:50:00
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Sir, ~ I was moved by Patricia Mukhim’s write-up, “Contortions in matrilineal Meghalaya” (22 September). Such brutal crimes against women in the picturesque state of Meghalaya, which boasts of a matrilineal succession to property, is ...
2008-09-27 02:14:00
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Rob Lowe has been forced to give up golfing after "a tragic accident." The actor was playing in a celebrity tournament when his perfect sand wedge shot hit a goldfinch in mid-air and killed the bird. He says, "My luck continued to decline. It turns ...
2008-09-27 11:58:00
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In experiments with teenagers in the United States, scientists discovered that children whose "approximate number system" (ANS) was highly developed, were also good in school-taught mathematics from an early age.
2008-09-27 05:13:00
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Jackson — The Mississippi Department of Education has released the results of testing of public elementary and middle school students on new state tests for language arts and mathematics. The MCT2 test was administered to students in third through ...
2008-09-27 02:07:00
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.
2008-09-27 04:22:30
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The Missouri State University mathematics department has joined a $3 million, four-school partnership to create the Missouri Secondary Mathematics Leadership Academy and the Missouri Middle Grades Mathematics Leadership Academy.
2008-09-27 01:37:55
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A new study shows that nearly all elementary schools in California will fail to meet the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements for proficiency by 2014, the year when all students in the nation need to be proficient in English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, per the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. For most schools, the greatest risk of failing AYP lies with ELA proficiency, the study ...
2008-09-27 05:22:11
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The Pima Medical Institute has launched a nursing program to help relieve a nurse shortage in the area. The program, which has room for slightly more than 30 students, is currently accepting enrollment, said program director Jeannine Hayduk. Classes ...
2008-09-27 08:59:00
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ATLANTA -- An interesting subplot at THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola this week is the race for the Vardon Trophy and the Byron Nelson Award. Those two honors go to the player with the lowest adjusted scoring average. How/Getty Images ...
2008-09-27 10:53:00
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THEY never looted the government treasury or shot up the place. Hence, they rarely featured in the headlines. Now, 50 of these men and women are in the news for a change. On its “golden anniversary,” the Department of Science and Technology cited ...
2008-09-27 08:23:00
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The Foundation for Indiana University of Pennsylvania and IUP formally cut the ribbon today for the Phase II buildings of the $270 million Residential Revival project, the largest project of its kind in the nation. The Residential Revival, a public ...
2008-09-27 07:33:00
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The sea of young faces sitting around Low Gap Park Friday afternoon was remarkable not just because of the size of the assembled crowd, but that the interest of the students was captivated by an unlikely suspect: junior high science. The field trip ...
2008-09-27 09:49:00
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James May talks to Matt Warman about his hunt for the world's most bizarre technologies and the mad scientists he met along the way The trouble with computers, says James May, is not that they’re expensive or complicated or inclined to run software ...
2008-09-27 10:25:00
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Anna Muttathupandathu will become Saint Alphonsa on October 12. And more than 6,000 believers from Kerala are flying to Vatican City to witness her canonisation. Ten-year-old Jinil, busy playing with his brother Jubin, some 25 kilometres from the ...
2008-09-27 11:01:00
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