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Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer A teacher explains an assignment to his ninth-grade class at MC2STEM High School, on the top floor of the Great Lakes Science Center. Ninth-graders were at the center on a temporary arrangment during the winter and moved ...
2009-08-20 05:24:00
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City-based leather industrialist Nasser Khan will make his debut in Bollywood on Friday. The catch: Blind since birth, Khan has performed stunts in the action-thriller Shadow without the help of a stuntman. Be it riding a jet ski in the sea, jumping ...
2009-08-20 05:46:00
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Exam chiefs today suggested it may be time to "crank up the standard" of A-levels as record numbers of students learned they had scored top grades. As more than 300,000 teenagers around the country were waking up to their results, national figures ...
2009-08-20 04:27:00
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The revisions are notable because they suggest that business conditions are not as bad as feared. Since stocks are valued based on future profits, any increase in earnings estimates should lead to higher stock prices. In the case of the ...
2009-08-20 04:13:00
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Palm Bay High senior Tyler Laprade received a perfect score on the ACT, the only Florida student to do so this spring. Laprade, 16, scored a 36 on the nationwide college entrance exam, which he took as a junior. The average Florida student in the ...
2009-08-20 03:15:00
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Born in Patuakhali, Bangladesh, Ali earned his B.Sc. and master’s (Statistics) from the University of Dhaka. He worked as an actuarial assistant from 1952 to 1957, before obtaining another master's (Actuarial Mathematics) at the University of ...
2009-08-20 01:21:00
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Commenting on my article, Samuel Thomas writes (GDN, August 18) that he found it "disheartening that (I) didn't mention much about the achievements of the many civilisations in India." My article was about Arab contributions to civilisation. Mr ...
2009-08-20 05:17:00
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Alpenglow Elementary School mathematics teacher, Laura Ann Hulsebus, will be making a trip to Washington, D.C., this fall to accept the 2008 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. This prestigious award, the nation's ...
2009-08-20 04:20:00
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J Ablitt GS, G, H, P; S Ablitt C, GS, M, Ph; C Bailey G; D Balding Dra, GS, M, FM, Ph; M Bodych EA, F, GS, M; M Bostock GS, G, So; T Bottomley B, GS, M, Ph; T Bradbury EL, GS, H, M; R Brereton DT, GS, G, Ps; J Brookes CT, GS, G, H, P; R Burns B, DT ...
2009-08-20 09:32:00
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At Ysgol Morgan Llwyd they were delighted with their best ever set of A-levels – a pass rate of 100 per cent and higher grades A-C at 84 per cent. Congratulating everyone involved, head teacher Huw Foster Evans said: “We are delighted for our ...
2009-08-20 07:51:00
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has won a two-year grant of nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help Birmingham City School teachers incorporate XO laptop computers into the math and science ...
2009-08-20 10:36:00
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Business leaders have applauded the increase in the number of science A-level students, including a 12 per cent surge in mathematics candidates, but warned they still need more people with numeracy skills. The growth in the number of pupils taking ...
2009-08-20 07:08:00
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2009-08-20 09:53:00
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Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence ...
2009-08-20 11:55:00
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One part of the abstract and difficult mathematics in which Vixie is immersed each day can help computers recognize faces — such as those of people passing through the security areas of an airport. That practical application helps me feel I have a ...
2009-08-20 11:05:00
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