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Education is a subject that touches the heart and the pocketbook of millions of Americans. But it is usually spoken of, and written about, in the glutinous jargon of educators, guaranteed to obfuscate the issues and glaze the eye. This month, however, public discourse about education got a little affirmative action in the form of a new weekly newspaper called Education Week. The 24-page tabloid is published in Washington, D.C., by Editorial Projects in Education Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that founded and later sold the sprightly, respected Chronicle of Higher Education. At a yearly subscription rate...
...imperceptible it is often mistaken for mere absent-mindedness. This consists of the interjections of a familiar moniker into a conversation where the name is completely irrelevant. Kurt Vonnegut does this all the time: in the middle of a discussion of, say, polo ponies his eyes will suddenly glaze over and he'll shake his head and mutter, "Erooke Shields." This behavior is--poor Kurt--the familiar early symptom of a greater malaise...
...from some 25 judges. Lyde Buchtenkirch of Rhinebeck, N.Y., the first woman member of a U.S. team, not only garnered a gold but also won a special award for the best entry in the entire show with a 3-ft.-high bread sculpture (molded dough covered with a brown glaze and baked) called American Bounty. The creation depicted cowboys, American Indians, farmers and native grains and vegetables...
...just in it for himself." Talking about one of his colleagues who he thought took advantage of him, he said: "It was like that scene at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The hero is talking to his best friend, and as the friend's eyes glaze over, he realizes that he is one of THEM...
...party with these pills?" she asked emptily, finally looking up; all her spark departed, sucked back into a syringe, leaving only white, wooden flesh, hanging from her bones and that whole juggernaut of woman so soft and lucid like all the arable nature was now dampened with that phenobarbital glaze...