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It did not look good for me when our son Laszlo came from the womb all blond, blue-eyed and generally un-Jewy. In an earlier century, I would have had no choice but to trick my wife Cassandra into a best-of-three contest using a method that depends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: Does My Son Take After Me — or His Mom? A Genetic Test | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Cassandra's results came back first, because of the fact that, genetically, she's more likely to remember to mail stuff. We were both shocked at the amount of information contained in her spit, which heretofore had revealed only how recently she brushed. Her spit knew stuff about her she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: Does My Son Take After Me — or His Mom? A Genetic Test | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

The plan also needs to be more explicit about what should happen to persistently failing schools. While the $4 billion federal Race to the Top competition, which began in 2009, gives states incentives to close schools after all other strategies to improve achievement have failed, Obama's new proposal is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obama's Education Plan Make the Grade? | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Doris "Granny D" Haddock was 72 years my senior, but I truly believed she would outlive me. She was a proud great-grandmother of 16 and a serial troublemaker. She died on March 9 at 100. Few people believed Doris would survive the year when, at the age of 88...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Haddock | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

One night in 1995, I was standing in a bookstore in Berkeley, Calif., when a Moore image rooted me to the floor--and launched a book. I eventually searched out the shooter, and we became friends. He was an unassuming man with a softly charged voice, who probably didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Moore | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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