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...stars on a fairly regular basis. "Courting Eighth-Graders" gave an accurate and somewhat troubling snapshot of the college sports scene and the mind-set of athletes who are looking to enter the world of sports at an early age [Oct. 8]. Academics may not be on the front burner for these kids, but I thought that TIME would at least give honorable mention to the importance of studying and learning. We need to be concerned about academic standards and expectations for young athletes. Remember, the odds of their making it in professional sports are stacked against them. Nicholas...
...Title IX's success, women coaches are expected to win as much as the men. With those expectations come crippling hours, including weekends spent on the road recruiting. That puts unique pressure on women with families, who, since they are less likely to find a spouse ready to back-burner a career to raise the kids, may have more trouble than their male counterparts in making child-care arrangements...
...balloon he had fashioned using propane tanks, safely maneuvering a balloon for long distances had been pretty much a fantasy. In the wake of that 1960 flight, aeronautics engineer Paul (Ed) Yost, the first to use the relatively cheap propane-burner system for heat, became the father of modern hot-air ballooning, now a popular global sport. Among the many firsts he achieved: a 1963 trip with a partner across the English Channel...
...benefits of a changed calendar. Faculty will still be teaching the same number of days each year, and their uninterrupted research time would simply be moved to a different part of the year. Calendar reform has been put on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ back burner for the past several years, thanks primarily to the urgency of the Harvard College Curricular Review. After all, the calendar should fit the curriculum, not vice-versa. But now the broad brushstrokes of the curricular review have been nearly finalized and the faculty is simply working out the details before...
...accommodating tree branch - is just outside my office. A man in a straw hat grills chicken, pork and fish marinated in garlic, white pepper and coriander root. His wife pounds green papaya for spicy salads and simmers broth in a battered pot balanced on what looks like a Bunsen burner. My husband and I gorge for $3 - and there's always enough for the street dogs that cozy up to our rickety fold-up table. We may not be epicurean masters of the world, but I like to think we're doing our part for the sufficiency economy...