But the common core standards are currently being hijacked by politicians and administrators who see them as way to collect huge amounts of new data to evaluate everything from districts to teachers.
"The bottom line is there's huge amounts of desire and that fuels everything - and that's got to fuel us 24/7 because that's what being a professional athlete is".
The One Laptop Per Child non-profit association, first announced by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media lab at the World Economic Forum last January, claims the machine will "be able to do almost everything except store huge amounts of data".
The US TV networks throw huge amounts of money at the big sports and little at everything else.
By accident and design, people and companies are putting huge amounts of information about prices, locations, intentions and just about everything else into large databases.
After Hurricane Sandy hit, Mr. LeBlanc drove north in his mobile kitchen trailer, outfitted with commercial stoves, refrigeration and everything else it takes to rustle up huge amounts of food.
We spend huge amounts of time as passive bystanders, bemoaning our boredom and accusing pretty much everything of being boring.
"We've brought in the additional pumps to increase the capacity... we can pump huge amounts of water off - tonnes of water a second - but because everything is so saturated it can become a vicious circle".
"A Finance Overhaul Fight Draws a Lobbying Swarm" (front page, April 20) reported that huge amounts of money are being spent as "1,500 lobbyists, executives, bankers and others" are doing everything they can to weaken the Senate financial reform bill.
Newspaper people try to get everything right, but given that they are human beings writing and editing huge amounts of copy on unforgiving deadlines, often they don't.
