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...parents and politicians have discussed ways to further improve the lives of CRLS students. One proposal would give parents greater access to their children’s records via the Internet, and introduce a nutrition plan that would expand on the district’s past initiatives to curb childhood obesity and diabetes.“We have a lot of people, teachers, coaches, who want to see [improvement] happen and who really have the best interest of the students at the core of everything,” Knight said.Nolan was optimistic about the school’s ability...
...close. This is a very serious defect, as the brain is not enclosed in the skull,” she said. Spina bifida, or the failure of spinal cord closure, is a more common result of NTDs than anencephaly, according to Suarez. “Among those who survive childhood [spina bifida], a majority are affected by hydrocephalus, paralysis, and lack of bowel and bladder control,” Missmer said. But causes of NTDs remain unclear. “In 1971, Dr. Brian McMahon reported an outbreak of NTDs that occurred in the 1930s in New England that...
...life, Tsotsi’s complex psyche and troubled human interactions could have overwhelmed the film’s slow dramatization. Tsotsi’s often awkward interactions with the kidnapped baby parallel his painstaking personal development, as he reflects on aspects of his own difficult childhood. Chweneyagae’s features show no sense of tenderness during the rather violent opening sequence, but with his gradual growth of affection for the baby, his young face animatedly begins to embrace the necessity of his own bottled emotions. Hood does a superb job of setting the scene...
...lonely, struggling actress-in-the-big-city, Reese Holdin (Zooey Deschanel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) returns after many years to her suburban childhood home and estranged father, Don (Ed Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock...
Lady and the Tramp For those of you who dare to defame your favorite Disney childhood memories, the 50th Anniversary-Special Edition-Buy Me Now version of “Lady and the Tramp” is out on limited release. If you can’t live without the story of a spoiled, aristocratic canine defying her high birth to mingle with a common mutt, then dig out your favorite family heirloom crystal tumbler, have the cook prepare plate of Italian food, and get sloshed with this underdog’s challenge. TAKE A SHOT: 1. During each...