Sally Ride, astronaut and teacher
Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61. A physicist, Ride devoted her post-NASA career as an educator to making science “cool” for young...
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Academics are pointless, Ilana Garon’s students at a Bronx high school told her. “When am I ever going to need Shakespeare? Or geometry?” When asked, two said they wanted to be astronauts. A third...
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