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...disappointed that you didn't publish some other things I told your reporter. I also said, "But then you see the questions, and you think, 'Oh, I know this stuff.'" The story made it sound like I was scared, and I was not. SARAH TELANEUS, age 11 Denton, Texas...
...Each spring, students at Woodrow Wilson Elementary in Denton, Texas, trade their normal curriculum for an eight-week crash course known as "TAAS Camp." There, students who ace a day of drills spend the late afternoon playing computer and board games. The stragglers get one-on-one tutoring. The pressure peaks at test time. Says Sarah Telaneus, 11: "All of a sudden your heart starts pounding and you're thinking, ?I might go blank.'" Not to worry: she and her classmates turned in scores high enough to put their teachers in line for bonuses...
...former Defense Secretary had been removed. Three days earlier, Cheney--whose medical history includes three mild heart attacks and a coronary bypass--had been given a clean bill of health by his doctors in Washington. For backup, Bush's father put Cheney's doctors in touch with Dr. Denton Cooley, a renowned heart surgeon in Houston and a family friend. Cooley told Bush that Cheney's heart could handle the job. And so, on the 15th, Bush called his top three advisers to the mansion. They chewed over the possible risks of picking Cheney, but as chief strategist Karl Rove...
...figured the article would never appear. Too much of a downer. But it did (TIME, Aug. 30, 1999), and nine months later, I'm still hearing from readers. Many have written to console me with similar stories about their parents. One reader sent me cookies. Gil Morris, of Denton, Texas, sent me a song he had recorded about his mother called Her Broken Heart. Some wrote to tell me about families torn apart by the decisions of how to care for an aging parent; an awful lot had parents who were ripped off or abused by caregivers. There were wonderful...
...Chad B. Denton, '01, co-director of Aiming High for Emerson Academic Development (AHEAD), recalled an episode a few weeks ago. Joe found out that the Denton was short drivers for an AHEAD event and volunteered his services to shuttle PBHA volunteers to the event. Even at the top of the totem pole, Joe does not feel like he is above any task...