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...inches above ground and Pontiac skimped on a height-adjuster for the seats. Rear visibility is fine with the roof down, but when it's up the glass rear window provides minimal views. The cockpit feels sports-car Spartan; our test car featured a two-tone "sand-and-steel, " design scheme, with a five-speed manual shifter (don't ask for an automatic, Pontiac isn't making one). Those bezels around the gauges? They have the glint of chrome but turn out to be plastic. Then there's the question, which may arise on a weekend jaunt...
...after a long stretch of driving like this that we arrived in a Jackson, Miss., diner called the Lamar, whose design scheme paired pink flamingoes with American flags. The restaurant, like the entire capital city, was almost completely abandoned. Aside from a few friends of the sole waiter, we were the only customers. “Yeah, this is America, sure, but pretty soon we’re gonna have to speak Mexican,” the waiter was telling his friend when we stepped in. “Mexican.” We took a booth in the back...
...have a required Social Analysis core, but what’s the overwhelmingly popular course in that department? Ec 10, about as consumer-oriented a class as you can get. It relies on the premise that to think logically is to think self-interestedly and implicitly argues through the design of its curriculum that the maximization of wealth is more important than how it is shared...
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...this week is on the U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, PA, where 11 parents from the town of Dover have sued the local school board over its mandate that students hear a statement insisting that evolution is a theory rather than a fact, and that another theory called "intelligent design" (ID) is one viable alternative. The plaintiffs argue that ID is not actually science, but simply religion by another name, and that teaching it would therefore violate a 1987 Supreme Court ruling that banned the teaching of "creation science" in public schools...