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• Report: Making math uncool hurts U.S.
Writing in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Mertz and colleagues described their analysis of data from international math competitions going back to 1974. They also looked at surveys of U.S. students. "It is deemed uncool within the ...
• Contest pairs horse trainers with wild mustangs
To try to boost the number of adoptions, Patti Colbert, executive director of the mustang foundation, came up with the idea of the horse-training competitions while watching reality TV shows. "I figured if you could make over a house or a person or a ...
• It’s not all play on Great White Way
To that end, the cast and crew hold cookie baking competitions and chili cook-offs. For Halloween, they will decorate the entire theater and throw a party for the cast and crew. Dark day at theater, school day for kids White noted that the child actors ...
• Wine country tourists juiced about grape stomping
There are fairs, festivals and team competitions as well as quieter experiences at individual wineries. On a recent sunny afternoon in the Napa Valley, Beverly Miller of Akron, Ohio, was willing to bare her sole for a new experience, kicking off her ...
• Baristas taking their espresso seriously
Today's baristas aren't just slinging joe as a part-time job; many consider it a career, go through extensive training, face off in competitions and trade tricks at Web sites such as baristaexchange.com. "It is much less a college job to make beer ...