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...first operations of its kind - another Les Paul innovation. Back from the dead, he was named to the Rock Hall of Fame in 1988. At the induction ceremony, Jeff Beck said, "I've copied more licks off Les Paul than I'd care to admit." Paul subsequently said to Stephen Peeples, "I'm glad I was able to give the kids some toys to play with...
...science across, they fall into a trap of using too much jargon. When you hear a scientist speaking on the news, it does sometimes make you cringe a bit. I have to say, one of my favorite TV shows - and I don't know that I should admit this - is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I did go through a phase of four or five books in a row of finding a way of using Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an illustration. [Laughs...
ANDOVER, Mass. — For the past month and a half, I have taught at the summer session of Phillips Academy. Although working close to home in this sylvan corner of northern Massachusetts was a joy to me, I have to admit a certain amount of moral struggle that I faced as a faculty member of an institution whose students condescendingly referred to me as a “local” while I grew up in neighboring North Andover. Now, at the end of the summer, I have seen the other side of the campus?...
...that the admissions policy run by JFS School in North London was in breach of the Race Relations Act. The school's admissions policy, which insists that a pupil's mother must be Jewish, whether by birth or conversion, came under scrutiny in 2007 after the school refused to admit a 12-year-old boy on the grounds that his mother had converted to Judaism from Catholicism through the progressive Judaism movement, which is not recognized by the orthodox United Synagogue, Britain's largest Jewish authority. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
That may be precisely the problem. Today roughly 17% of American kids and teens are obese, and parents cite obesity as a top concern for their children's health. Yet with so many other overweight kids in the class, it appears that parents can't recognize - or admit it to themselves - when their child is too heavy. When they do realize it, like Becky Cohn, parents often are upset or don't know how to implement pediatricians' vague orders about exercise and diet - much the way overweight adults are flummoxed by the same recommendations. (Read "Making Good Health Easy...