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...teacher and kids in a first-grade class at Guilford Elementary School in Baltimore. She's also made a couple of close friends among her teammates. "We start out talking about the children in our classroom and end up talking about our families," she says. And as a bonus, walking the long hallway to her classroom has got her in better shape physically. She's lost a few pounds and no longer uses the cane she once needed--yet another testament to the health benefits of social interaction. --With reporting by Adrianne Navon/New York and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
Even as Chrysler hurries to increase supply, another entry in the nostalgia sweepstakes is on the way. Next summer an incarnation of the classic 1955 Ford Thunderbird will appear. The Thunderbird (so named by a young Ford stylist who was rewarded with a $95 bonus and a pair of trousers from Saks Fifth Avenue) started out as a snazzy two-seater weighing 3,000 lbs. and costing $2,695. It eventually evolved into a giant sedan weighing more than 5,000 lbs. that was finally discontinued in 1997. The new model, slimmed down to roadster size and fitted with familiar...
...Human Services show that 46,000 foster-care children were legally adopted in 1999, a 28% increase from the previous year's total. Money is part of the picture. For every child adopted beyond the number of adoptions in the previous year, the feds pay the states a bonus of $4,000, to be used for their foster-care and adoption programs. Kids with special needs are worth $6,000. In September federal officials announced that 42 states would receive $20 million in adoption bonuses...
...There is a simpler reform that would ensure the popular-vote winner a majority in the electoral college: award a bonus of 102 electoral votes, two for each state and for the District of Columbia, to the winner of the popular vote. Under this reform, there would remain a temptation to bring moral pressure on individual electors to reject the decisions of their states and shift their votes to the popular-vote winners. This invokes the myth that the founding fathers expected the electors to be free agents. The evidence is that the founders fully expected the electoral college...
...standing ovation filled with screams and whistles. Despite the audience's rather explicit requests for an encore, Rollins waved his fist in the air in a show of solidarity with his fans and hurried off without playing another note. Despite their apparent disappointment at being deprived of a bonus tune, one thing is for certain-no one sitting in that audience will ever consider 70 old again...