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The Times last weekend had a big article on the "achievement gap" in education, where poor and minority students are found to lag behind upper- and middle-class white students in many subjects. The author looks at a number of innovative shools that are producing good results with students from the…
Woozy is the city of Boston recovering from St. Patrick's Day. Links for you. Science: Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore's law apply to solar cells? Why are there no (or almost no) disease-causing Archaea? For Whom the Cell Mutates: The Origins of Genetic Quirks Hog Farmers Overuse Antibiotics…
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