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When Uwe and Hannelore heard that the judge had ruled in their favor, they celebrated by taking their five children - who range in age from 4 to 12 - to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream. But the next day, they were back to their regular schedule. Lessons start at 9 a.m. and end at around 4 p.m. The school-age kids are learning all the usual subjects - math, science, etc. - with the help of textbooks and other teaching materials, in compliance with state law. The family has also joined a local group that organizes activities and field trips once a week...
...Dunster Grille is also a popular late-night hangout. Serving up a delicious array of unhealthy snacks seven nights a week, the Grille is an enjoyable and cheap way to fend off those late night munchies. The uber-friendly House Masters also hold frequent open houses and ice cream bashes, featuring home-made food and desserts, not to mention a kick-ass mango sorbet...
...watchtower. They meet a man who pleads with militants not to use his home as a firing position because the result will be the destruction of his house; and they witness a Rafah home demolished by an Israeli bulldozer that "scooped out the earth as if it were ice cream." Back in 1956, the Palestinians saw the faces of the Israeli soldiers bursting into their homes, but today, in Sacco's cartoons - as well as in reality - Gazans seldom if ever see their enemy, who fires on them from inside tanks, helicopters and other mechanized cocoons...
They're all right. The orthodox cheeseburger, with its pillowy, enriched white bun, Pythagorean square of tangerine-colored American cheese and blissfully unadulterated (and unspiced) beef, is an invention that cannot really be improved upon. Like sashimi or peaches and cream, it's a gastronomic end point. But this is America. We're about competition and reinvention - not just at the Burger Bash, but also in the omnipotent market, where fortunes rise and fall over the narrowest bits of brand differentiation. (Take away Ronald and the King, and only an expert can tell the basic McDonald's and Burger King...
...change their behavior. In medical studies, family-based behavioral treatments have proved almost twice as effective as those that involve only the child. "You can't have a successful program if the parent is telling the kid not to eat chips while he's sitting there eating ice cream," says Leonard Epstein, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University at Buffalo...