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...gynecologist (John Hodgman) tells her, adding that Kate has a one-in-a-million chance of ever getting pregnant. (You should be able to guess Act Three from here.) So she engages Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler), a white-trashy girl from the nearby town of Dreery, to be the child???s surrogate mother. When she breaks up with her loutish boyfriend Carl (Dax Shepard), slobby Angie moves in with neatnik Kate. In social aptitude, one woman is the baby, the other the mama...
...teacher and parent, I give No Child??Left Behind (NCLB) a failing grade [June 4]. There is no way to fix a law that operates under the flawed assumption that tests rather than teachers should govern curriculum. Testing is simply a tool for measuring learning in the same way that a thermometer is an instrument for reading temperature. What would happen to the health of a nation if lawmakers tried to force doctors to spend a large portion of their time taking patients' temperatures instead of practicing medicine? The reality of NCLB is that it allows few children...
...nearly 350 playgrounds in 24 states, ranging from pocket-size parks to a 1½-sq.-mi. recreation area, complete* with a 600-seat amphitheater, in Romulus, N.Y. "The attitude is what makes this work," says Leathers. "I love to see a whole family?a grandparent, a parent and a child???out there working. They've never had a chance to build something together like this...
With his only child??entering college and a wife who works, David Blumenthal, 64, a mortgage broker in Philadelphia, recently concluded that he was carrying more life insurance than his family needed. But after paying premiums for five years on $1 million of term coverage, he didn't like the idea of simply letting the policy lapse and walking away empty-handed. So he took advantage of a relatively new option...
...there are important distinctions between and within the three main genres of private violence. Slapping a spouse is different from shaking a child???an adult can more easily understand, fight back or flee?and both are very unlike rape. Of the three, rape is most unequivocally a statutory crime, and probably every rapist ought to be locked up for some time. They are real criminals. Of course, a parent who willfully scalds a child's arm is a criminal. Of course, a man who stomps his pregnant wife is a criminal. These cases are, ironically, the easiest ones to think...