Word: finegold
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...Brie Finegold, 22, a graduate of the University of North Texas, says she did fine without the traditional classroom. "I got to do volunteer work at the food bank at my synagogue and apprentice to a dance company when I was a teenager, when others my age were sitting in classrooms," she says. But volunteering and dancing aren't necessarily better than chemistry and poetry. The basic function of a liberal education is to expose people to fields they normally wouldn't investigate. Whether you believe the purpose of education is to shape one's character in a democracy...
...selected irritants can desensitize the immune system and get it back on a more normal track. (The injections don't generally trigger an overreaction because they are delivered not into the respiratory system but through the skin.) "The shots usually aren't given before age 4," says Dr. Ira Finegold of St. Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York City. "But it can be done earlier...