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...serves kindergarten through eighth grade, a charming scene unfolds in Karen Hennessy's classroom. Her kindergartners are enjoying a visit from their eighth-grade "buddies." All around the room, big kids sit knees to chest in miniature chairs or cross-legged on the alphabet carpet. Each little kid has chosen a picture book to share with a big buddy. Some lean on eighth-grade laps as they listen. Logan Wells, a strapping 14-year-old, reads The Little Engine That Could to Alec Matias and Jacob Hill. Jacob, 5, seems mesmerized equally by the bright illustrations and by the eighth...
...gesture probably intended to mollify a press that had been portraying him as an unrelenting hard-liner, the newly chosen Benedict invited journalists as guests to his first public appearance in the Vatican's Paolo VI auditorium on April 23. But he was ill at ease, and the ever vigilant Italian scribes noted that the hemline of his robes was cut far too high, offering an unusually revealing look at his ruby papal slippers. It was the kind of gaffe his predecessor, as a former actor, would have been unlikely to commit...
...Last week, those two nations surprised the world with an alternative planet-saving scheme at a location seemingly chosen at random. On the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer unveiled the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a six-nation initiative that was pulled together in behind-the-scenes diplomatic talks over the past six months. The other countries taking part?China, India, Japan and South Korea?are responsible for 48% of the world's greenhouse...
...live my life in this manner. Well, there is: me. I choose to spend my time this way, even though it may mean less time for friends, family and relaxing. Call me crazy, but the reason for my overscheduled lifestyle is the love I have for all my chosen activities. Just like with my schooling, I have long-term goals for the sports with which I am involved. Those goals drive me to keep up the hard work. I enjoy what I do and am not planning to stop anytime soon...
...regret that he has chosen, in reflecting on recent matters at the University, to bring his service to a close,” Houghton said...