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...immortalized-in syndication and on DVD-standing in his kitchen, eating sugary cereal for dinner, in jeans and sneakers and an untucked shirt. But on a warm, rainy evening in August in a nondescript dressing room backstage in a theater in Colorado Springs, Jerry Seinfeld is dressed as if he were going to church: a dark suit, a crisp, white shirt and an elegant, silvery tie. And he acts a bit devout too, bowing his head in a moment of silence...
...week later, the clarinet has been silenced, and after several weeks spent finishing the movie on the West Coast, Seinfeld flies off to entertain the nice folks in Colorado Springs. After the set, he bows to a standing ovation, and then he's gone, ducking into a Mercedes waiting behind the theater. "That show, for me, was one of the best ones I've had in a long time," says Seinfeld en route to the airport. "It's a focus thing. I haven't been onstage not thinking about the movie for a long time." In a few minutes, Seinfeld...
...example of how the technology typically works, consider another Colorado school district: St. Vrain Valley. School administrators spend hours at the start of each school year scanning several points on the student's right index finger. "The information is saved within our system - it doesn't go anyplace else," says Shelly Allen, director of nutrition services for the 23,000-student district. When the student reaches the end of the line, she places an index finger on a pad about the size of a car's garage opener. Her name, and sometimes an image of her face, appears...
...something different is needed to take students beyond an elementary level. "Substantial improvement in reading achievement is still eluding us as a nation," said Amanda Avallone, a member of the NAEP governing board, at a press conference carried live on the Internet. Avallone teaches 8th grade English in Colorado...
...construction crews work across the region, but home is Hildale, Utah, and neighboring Colorado City, Arizona, two ramshackle settlements 40 miles from St. George and set on a high prairie in a glorious mountain setting. For every tongue-tied Merril Shapley who has chosen to stay, there are other boys, perhaps as many as 1,000 or more, who have been cast into exile for offenses as trivial as acting out or watching forbidden movies. Dubbed the "Lost Boys," - exiled boys far outnumber girls - they live in low rent apartments or on the street, in the backs of cars...