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...charter schools, and educational reform. He tells the two graduates that today’s youth must have a toolbox of knowledge if they are to build a better tomorrow. Distant in thought and dabbling on a laptop, he probably wonders why race and class discrepancies still exist in childhood learning. While Edgar informs Horace Mann about Teach for America, the waiter takes his order, pragmatism. Franklin’s eyes consider a second entrée, but just then the professional voice of Dr. Osler comments upon Benjamin’s expanding girth...
...meet their family friend, the director of the St. Louis Zoo, to discuss the prospect of housing two caimans in the family basement. Much to his parents’ chagrin, the zoo director thought housing the small crocodiles was a wonderful idea: the director’s reptilian childhood pets had piqued his own interest in zoology.Losos’ adored his caimans, according to his father, and joined the St. Louis Herpetology society at age 12.“He was probably their youngest member,” said his father. When it was time for Jonathan to leave...
...stays inside the public funding system might not get to choose from a list of specialists, but he or she will get a referral and the needed care. In some cases, patients even get paid to go to the doctor: for new mothers, a network of prenatal and early childhood facilities, called Protection Maternelle et Infantile, provides basic care, with financial incentives for the poor to attend...
...many people know that Charles Dickens was an actor as well as a writer. A workaholic who was haunted by memories of his impoverished childhood, when he worked in a blacking factory, Dickens was never the most emotionally stable of men at the best of times, never mind at the worst. In 1857 his friend Wilkie Collins wrote a play about a failed Arctic expedition. Dickens became obsessed with it and, like a rapper who's tired of the recording studio, volunteered to play the role of the villain. Then he fell in love with his 18-year...
...organization. Rosenthal has also been the medical director of the Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Despite his involvement in other institutions, friends and family say Rosenthal’s passion for Harvard stands out. Hrasky recalls attending Harvard sports games during her childhood and says her father speaks about the University often. In Rosenthal’s office, two Harvard posters hang on the walls, and he keeps his yearbook easily accessible on an office bookshelf. As he flips through the yearbook, he murmurs, “Good memories...