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...morning last winter, a first-grader named Elizabeth awoke with a nasty cough. While she took her prescribed asthma medication, her mother reviewed their options. Neither parent could stay home that day. Elizabeth's mother had to be in the lab, and her father was out of town on business. School was risky: although she didn't feel sick and wasn't contagious, Elizabeth sounded sick, and her mother knew from experience that the nurse would probably call for a pickup just before dismissal time...
...what happens to the rest? Many of those who can't stay home or go to work with a parent wind up with a helpful friend or relative. And while it's tough to sneak even mildly ill babies and toddlers into day care, every parent knows a little cough suppressant and Tylenol can work wonders for school-age children. Worst of all, thousands of older sick kids stay home alone...
What smoker wouldn't jump--er, hop, with a wheezing cough--at the chance? If this guy started smoking after the government put a label on the package assuring them of the risks, and he has been awarded such a big settlement, doesn't that entitle everyone to a piece of the tobacco companies' vanishing assets? The tobacco settlement with the states did not offer the companies immunity from further lawsuits, and this case will certainly lead to further litigation...
Some teachers, who resent any challenge to their autonomy, gripe that structured curriculums merely supply rote facts while stifling creativity among teachers and students alike. "The only teaching this does is to make kids cough up answers on command," says Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve. Adds Linda McNeil, a professor of education at Rice University: "They'll drive out the best teachers and give the weakest a place to hide...
WILLIAM COHEN Defense Department botches anthrax inoculations. So much for "Turn your head and cough...