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...much for the stragglers. "Some kids come to school with a 3,000-word vocabulary, and others come with 30,000 words, and when we place them in the same classroom from 8 to 2, the 3,000-word child can't begin to catch up," says Barbara Davis Brown, principal of the Village Academy, an extended-year school opening next month in Delray Beach, Fla., which will run 264 days a year. For those who need extra help, Brown will offer tutoring sessions afternoons and Saturday mornings. But even this may not do the trick. Cautions Missouri's Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summertime and School Isn't Easy | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...Democrats wasted little time in casting Cheney as an old-fogey conservative, a "nice man," in Barbara Boxer's words, who was nevertheless out of touch with mainstream American politics. Gore surrogates called Cheney a "blast from the past" and will take aim at Cheney's right-wing ideological footprint - while the new Bush ticket will do its best to smile and ignore such talk. They're grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheney: Competence, Not Charisma | 7/25/2000 | See Source »

Since it was Thursday, the first thing I did was waddle down the hall to the place where Barbara puts out a bowl of chocolates, grab a fistful of Butterfingers and Special Darks, and then hotfoot it back to my desk. Three hundred paces! This was going to be easy. Unfortunately, by the end of the day, I had racked up only 3,000 steps. I resolved the next day to walk to the pizza place at lunch rather than order in, and I managed to boost my total to 5,000 paces. Within three days, I was obsessed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Tech Walking | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...real world, all they need to do is go outside and walk, run, ride a bike or watch a sunset. Activity is its own reward. VTV is a joke. Turn off your voyeur-TV shows and get a life in the real world. BILL SMART Santa Barbara, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 17, 2000 | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...initial raise more than covered any future innovations. Says the 45-year-old electrical engineer: "If I had made the same discovery in the U.S., I would have got a $1 million bonus." Disenchanted, Nakamura left Nichia last December for a professorship at the University of California at Santa Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Weird Science | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

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