Word: control
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...Littleton. It has been in train for many months or maybe longer, and it crosses party lines. A bipartisan consensus--that holy grail of establishmentarians everywhere--has been reached that politicians can no longer concern themselves merely, even primarily, with the workaday stuff of politics: marginal tax rates, crime control, defense expenditures, environmental and labor laws, the international balance of power. Our politicians are transcending politics. They are turning their attention, for better or for worse, to matters of the human heart...
...idea of prayer in schools, which the Supreme Court has ruled illegal about 38 times). But what about New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman's proposal to spend $10 million turning schools into little fortresses, with security better than that at the nuclear lab in his state? Or more gun control, as New York Senator Charles Schumer urged when he reminded us that "a teenager can only do so much damage with his fists...
...crime in the classroom is an epidemic, it's like tuberculosis--one we basically control, with a few flare-ups every once in a while that beat the inoculation. Overall, school violence is not going up. Just 10 of every 1,000 students were the victims of serious violent crime at school in 1996. And while that's 10 too many, more than twice that number (26) were victims off campus. After the shootings that occurred in the 1997-98 school year, many districts tightened security. It's having an effect, according to the National School Safety Center: there were...
...cutting down--not cutting out--the amount of saturated fat (ice cream, butter, whole milk) in your diet. Eat more whole grains (whole wheat, barley, oatmeal), which contain lots of fiber and phytochemicals, rather than refined cereal products. Load up on fruits and vegetables. Keep your weight under control. Don't forget to exercise. The American Heart Association's recommendation that you eat no more than four egg yolks a week still seems prudent. But if you decide to add more, you may want to have your cholesterol tested again in six months just to be safe...
Sources: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Yankelovich Partners, Funders Concerned About AIDS, Statistical Abstract of the U.S., N.J. Dept. of Law & Public Policy