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LeVake started teaching biology at Faribault High School in 1997 after 13 years as a seventh-grade general-science instructor. It wasn't long before colleagues suspected he might have trouble teaching Darwin's theory to his 10th-graders. "We'd just sort of talk informally," says LeVake of his...
If it's been too long since you've heard the word golly! uttered without irony, head to Faribault, Minn., a hamlet one hour south of the Twin Cities, and ask for Rod LeVake. Maybe LeVake will meet you for some apple pie at the Happy Chef and talk a...
This summer, which happens to mark the 75th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial," LeVake will take his cause to Minnesota's Court of Appeals, where, after losing in district court, he is suing the Faribault school district for discrimination. Really, he's suing for the opportunity to teach evolution...
In other words, Eldorado just closed its gates. That bright shining myth we became so accustomed to over the past two years, the idea that you can make your millions simply by being at the right junction of Silicon Valley's Route 101 at the right time, no longer applies...
TEACHERS' PETS Here's a novel way for men to boost their odds of a happy marriage: Don't teach in high school or college. New research published in Evolution and Human Behavior says men who teach there are more likely to be divorced than other men because of their...