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(Tribune Media Services) -- Now you see it. Now you don't. When you're airfare shopping, attractive prices can vanish in a split second. Just ask Jim Doll, a systems engineer in Atlanta, who recently tried to buy a ticket to San Francisco on AirTran ...
2010-03-05 08:59:00
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This is one reason why young adults are responsible for half the 100,000 annual “fall asleep” automobile crashes. When Edina, Minn., changed its high school start from 7:25 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., math and verbal SAT scores rose substantially.
2010-03-05 10:17:00
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SALT LAKE CITY — Requiring all high school seniors to take a math class is not as simple as it sounds, state education leaders are finding. State Board of Education members and Utah State Office of Education staff hashed out a potential policy ...
2010-03-05 10:17:00
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ST. LOUIS — Jim Les appreciated each and every one of the 31 points that Bradley guard Sam Maniscalco scored in Friday's Missouri Valley tournament win over Creighton. But the Braves' coach was even more delighted about his team's defensive effort ...
2010-03-05 10:32:00
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Ted Phillips, you're a terrible liar. But Bears fans will stand in line to forgive you after a day they never will forget. They don't want you to stop telling tall tales now either. Fib your way back into the playoffs if you can. Tell Bears Nation ...
2010-03-05 10:32:00
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... iconic doll who in 1992 was infamously made to say, “Math class is tough,” has had a makeover as a computer engineer for her 2010 edition, complete with pink glasses and pink laptop. But if progress has been dramatic since the two-time Nobel ...
2010-03-05 10:53:00
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NEW YORK — It has been five years since Lawrence H. Summers, then the president of Harvard University, suggested at an academic conference that innate differences might explain why fewer women than men succeed in science and math careers. His ...
2010-03-05 10:53:00
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I remember very clearly the first time I discovered that it’s all too easy to skate around the rules to get what you want. My third grade teacher, Mrs. Mills, had assigned the class 20 math problems to do as homework. As numbers and I haven’t ...
2010-03-06 01:59:00
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PARIS - Sultry Amazons in negligees and jodhpurs and modern-day Nefertitis in identical blunt-cut black wigs skulked Paris' catwalk on Friday, as the French capital's fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear shows moved into an exhilarating day three ...
2010-03-06 02:57:00
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To celebrate World Math Day, six Exeter Junior High girls dealt a deck of cards and started buying and trading crops. The students were playing a math game they created based on their research of hieroglyphics from 4000 B.C. Set in that era, the game ...
2010-03-05 11:08:00
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To understand why the college acceptance letters are such a big deal, consider a startling statistic: For every 100 African-American boys who start high school in Chicago Public Schools, just three will have a college diploma by their mid-20s. KING ...
2010-03-05 10:46:00
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After four months and almost a million dollars, we learn in a less-than-100-page report what could have been cut and pasted from any multitude of Internet news outlets, blogs and newspapers. Nothing new and no revelation to anyone who has paid the ...
2010-03-05 10:32:00
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... Shine: stories of black women freedom fighters”; “Women's Work: the first 20,000 years”; the “Writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton” (DVD); “A to Z of Women in Science and Math”; and “Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History.”
2010-03-05 11:15:00
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The "museum discovery" curriculum is closely aligned with California and national standards in the core areas of science, math, English and social studies. The meeting dates and times are 6 p.m. Tuesday, 9 a.m. March 23, 6 p.m. April 13, 9 a.m. April ...
2010-03-05 11:58:00
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“I think it’s great the school is trying to make equal opportunities, but with that said, I think especially for math the separation is necessary,’’ said Vanya Zvonar, a sophomore. “There is such a big difference between someone who doesn ...
2010-03-06 12:12:00
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