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...walls to allowing companies to use students for market research during class time, school administrators are scrambling to solve their financial difficulties by permitting companies to cash in on kids. Good public policy, however, suggests that schools should resist the temptation to turn their curriculum into a flea market open to anyone with enough money to rent a table. Advertising is fundamentally at odds with a school curriculum planned in a spirit of inquiry and critical reflection with the best interests of students in mind...
...ever called me a prude, but the window thing is a little creepy. You feel like you're at a school for Peeping Toms, and you find yourself wishing there were a confession window, or maybe a flea dip, at the end of the chute. If they at least rotated your tires, you would feel a little better about yourself. But that's just one take. "I've been to Amsterdam, and this is a better show," Diskin raved as Daisy scored a 9.8 in the floor exercises...
...transformed a quarter-mile of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, an eight-lane highway running through the center of the city, into a massive political flea market...
Admittedly, Eastern Market is the nicest part of Southeast. Forming the southern half of Capitol Hill, the neighborhood is anchored by a giant red warehouse that turns into a vibrant flea market on the weekends. A number of shops, restaurants and bars line Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street, the main thoroughfares. Townhouses, some dating from the early 1800s, hug the side streets, home to the typical (at least for the District) army of government workers. In other words, Eastern Market is a lot like Georgetown...
...dinner, we cannot remember the name of the sculptor who did the Statue of Liberty. I tell a story about Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and about their creator, the great animator Chuck Jones, who has a cartoon on his office wall, captioned "Agnostic Fleas," showing two fleas standing perplexedly in a wasteland filled with enormous stalks that turn out to be huge hairs; one flea says disconsolately to the other, "Sometimes I wonder if there really...