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...photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you are going too far. Obama is a rookie-in-waiting who has not even entered the game yet. So far, all he seems to have done is start assembling a team of political has-beens from the Clinton era. I expect next week's edition of Time to show Obama descending from the clouds preceded by angels blowing trumpets. Don Moiso, Ocean City, New Jersey...
...Creative Kindergarten Your postcard on the blue school, the high-priced, flavor-of-the-month teaching experiment in New York City, tells us that preschoolers are encouraged "to mess with shaving cream" [Nov. 22]. I expect that with such "encouragement," the little darlings in a few years will take up aerosol paint cans and leave their creative tags in the form of graffiti on public landmarks. But no doubt such "messing" with spray paint is just another form of self-expression. Richard Orlando, Montreal, Canada
...With CSU set to stop accepting applications at several campuses on Nov. 30, administrators expect that many students will turn to community colleges with the goal of transferring to Cal State two years down the line. According to a survey released by the American Association of Community Colleges in July, 66% of statewide community-college directors expect that enrollment caps at the state level will boost demand at their institutions. The problem, however, is that community-college directors in 16 states already report that they can't meet the demand from high school grads as is. That means if they...
...Iowa is the only state in the country where we have an open marriage case pending before a court," Chrisler said. (The Iowa high court will hear oral arguments in December.) "So we expect the battle to move now to issues like gay adoption and foster parenting, There isn't anywhere left for the other side to go on marriage." (See a video from a gay wedding...
...purposefully infecting others with the life-threatening virus. "The chip would work similar to the chips they use to track birds and animals considered endangered species," explains the doctor, who also sits in the local parliament and proposed legislation to pass the human microchipping. "I don't expect many would be tagged, but after coming across so many HIV cases in my years of practice, something drastic needs to be done...