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...banlieues need jobs, and Sarkozy needs the threat of violence to subside once and for all. He can start with concrete measures such as reintroducing community policing and ramping up eduction initiatives. Talk alone won't work in the banlieues. "Project residents aren't impressed with Sarkozy's flash and flair and won't confuse it with hard, lasting results," warns political analyst Dominique Reynié. "He's in for a long, hard slog--or more rioting if nothing changes...
...school. Christopher Medema, 7, now puts a weighted blanket on his lap when he's doing seatwork at school. The steady pressure meets some of his need for tactile input and helps him focus. His family has learned to accommodate his craving for motion. "He likes doing math flash cards standing on his head," says his dad, Steven...
...industry's bells and whistles, such as Sylvan's trained instructors and Score! Educational Centers' fancy computer-based curriculum. Kumon encourages the pre-K crowd to come in twice a week for about 30 minutes--at a cost of about $125 a month--to memorize letter charts and study flash cards. "I didn't feel like my son was where he could be," says Gina Monteiro, 38, a quality-assurance worker in Indianapolis who in June started taking her 4-year-old to lengthy sessions at a place called ABC's of Phonics three times a week because...
...Center for Reading and Language Research, describes how recent brain-imaging data show that children aren't ready to read until around age 5 at the earliest. "To hasten that process not only makes no sense socially or emotionally, it makes no sense physiologically," she says. Identifying a flash card at an early age isn't reading, Wolf notes. It's what researchers call paired-associate learning. That may sound impressive, but, she says, "a pigeon...
...Step away from my salad! I am tired of doctors picking apart my menu. I love salad with bacon bits and all. News flash: it's not all about calories. Every body processes different foods differently. It has taken me until my late 40s to figure out what works. I know how much protein, fat and carbs I need to keep my body in tune. I feel as if I figured out my good health in spite of - not because of - the docs. Denyse Coles, Burlington, Canada