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Bucky riffs on the Home Depot hot dog
Dining@LargeThe concept of guest posters was born to make the blogger's life easier introduce new voices and fresh ideas to the blog. For instance, your restaurant critic is not going to be writing much about hot dogs, and yet look!......Tags: Homes, Sarah Palin, Home Depot Incorporated, Colorado
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Glen Head student's a national math whiz
Alex Appel, a senior at North Shore High School in Glen Head, was one of 35 students nationwide this summer to compete in the National High School Math Championships, an annual two-day contest in Oklahoma City sponsored by the American Society for...Tags: Glen Head, Melville, Schools, Oklahoma, Long Island
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Ethics And Calculus
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel should step down from the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee pending the outcome of ethics investigations into his failure to pay taxes and other accusations. Ethical decency and respect for Congress demand it....Tags: Condos and Houses, Values, Charles B. Rangel, Ethics, Vacation and Timeshares
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Classroom stars
Kerry-Ann Gayle *School: Leesburg *Class: Senior *GPA: 4.36 weighted *Athletic achievements: Returning member of the varsity cheerleading squad *Academic achievements: National Honor Society member; had the highest grade-point average on...Tags: Curricula, Joe Williams, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Government, National Government
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UCLA mathematicians discover a 13-million-digit prime number
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterUCLA mathematicians appear to have won a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a 13-million-digit prime number that has long been sought by computer users. While the prize money is nothing special, the bragging rights for...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Electronics, International Business Machines Corporation
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As deal neared, games began
To most Americans looking on in mixed states of panic and disbelief, the effort to rescue the financial system from meltdown last week was a scary stew of power politics, trillion-dollar bets and wild stock market swings. But here's what was really...Tags: Richard Durbin, Bankruptcy, University of Michigan, Barack Obama, Henry Paulson
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A worthy goal
Despite some people's negative views about President Bush's No Child Left Behind education law, statistics show that at least fourth- and eighth-graders continue to improve in their reading and math skills since the law's implementation in 2002. An...Tags: George Bush
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Hampton 'grows their own' teachers
247-4537Shaun McIver was at her secretarial job at Hampton City Schools when the e-mail popped up. Its subject line: "Want to be a teacher?" She read the details: Hampton School employees could apply for an all-tuition paid path to earning teaching degrees...Tags: Society, Learning Disability, Old Dominion University, Thomas Nelson Community College, Christopher Newport University
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Tavares naval retiree helps local kids as algebra tutor
Special To The SentinelTake numbers in equations, add a bit of know-how to help a mind-boggled teen and you'll get Walt Dziedzic. Dziedzic, 71, has volunteered as an algebra tutor since 1994. He does it for the pure pleasure of it. "I enjoy it," he said. "I like to see that...Tags: Armed Forces, Defense, Mount Dora, Texas, Retirement
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Study: More students in algebra, but learning less
Associated PressWASHINGTON — More kids than ever are taking algebra in 8th grade but not necessarily learning more math, private researchers report. In fact, while 8th-graders are doing better on national math tests, students in advanced classes are faring worse,...Tags: Michigan State University
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Measuring the political cost of war
Chicago Tribune correspondentsSecond in an occasional series DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — No war goes unremembered in Bucks County, and no soldier dies unheralded, even when the rest of the nation doesn't seem to pay much attention anymore. This community north of Philadelphia once...Tags: Oregon, California, John Kerry, Berkeley (Alameda, California), Bucks County
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