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- Jan. 15, 1990: Happy To Divide And Conquer
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 53
- Happy to Divide and Conquer
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- <p>By J.D. Reed/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> Whatever you want to be, you've got to know math. Everybody
- who's struggled over long division has heard that one before.
- But not the way Bobby McFerrin does it. Fingers popping, feet
- tapping, the four-octave jazz singer does his own number in
- Wanna Be, a new video for PBS's Square One TV. The show
- encourages youngsters to get to know mathematics. "I wish
- they'd had a show like this when I was a kid," said McFerrin.
- </p>
- <p>he had liked multiplication tables more than music? Don't
- worry, be happy, he didn't.
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- </body>
- </article>
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