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...office, two young women desperately try to get a glimpse of the Governor, who is holed up in budget meetings. With a video camera, autograph boards and calligraphy pens, they prowl the halls for four-and-a-half hours, finally catching up to Tanaka eating lunch in the employee cafeteria. What excites them about Tanaka? "It's his intelligence, his perseverance, his warmth," says Ayako Yamada, a housewife who lives a two-hour train ride away. "He is so passionate...
Zachary Johnson has a familiar complaint about his school: the cafeteria food stinks. In most places, such gripes fall upon deaf ears. But Zachary, 13, attends the Accelerated School in South Central Los Angeles, where the teachers are determined to make school both challenging and attractive. Says Zachary, who helped persuade administrators to add a salad bar: "The teachers actually listen to you, and you don't find that in other schools around here...
...sensors in classroom ceilings connect the laptops to the school's server and the Internet. Teachers of everything from science to American history incorporate the Web into lesson plans. Away from school, kids plug their laptops into phone lines to question teachers or online experts about homework, or check cafeteria menus. When students are out sick, their teachers e-mail their missed assignments...
...last time you had chocolate milk, it may have been pizza-square day in your grade school cafeteria. But this beverage of youth is growing up. Sales of flavored milks, more than 90% of them chocolate, rose 18% last year. And much of the growth, milk producers say, is coming from people more apt to wear their milk mustaches at corporate cafeterias than school ones. In February, Hershey Foods completed a national rollout of its fat-free chocolate milk, a product with appeal for calorie-counting adults. National brands like Nestle-owned Nesquik, along with regional dairies like Dean Foods...
...March 19], said Pennsylvania eighth-grader Elizabeth Catherine Bush was "the first female school shooter in nearly three decades." We stand corrected. On Sept. 18, 1991, a 15-year-old high school girl in Crosby, Texas, shot and killed a 17-year-old football team captain in the school cafeteria...