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...There is a theme park quality to this part of the tour. I've never liked theme parks, never quite understood the need to pay strangers to make you sick and put your life in danger. I'm partial to museums, planetariums and bookstores, which is probably why my grade-school- age nephews consider me the least entertaining uncle in the universe...
...much as losing to Harvard is always a bad thing, it was the best thing that could have ever happened to our team," said Banghart, surrounded by a massive crowd of adoring grade-school girls while towing a bouquet of flowers for every record she had broken that night. "We changed everything. Everyone stepped up. We're just a whole different team...
...benefits can go beyond fun. Ryan Cooper, a seventh-grader in Gardner, Kans., used to get teased by classmates for being shy and overweight. During his four years with grade-school PE teacher KaCee Chambers, whom he credits with encouraging and motivating him, he went from not being able to do a single pull-up to setting the school record. Says Ryan, who also lost 10% of his body fat: "I don't take anything from anyone now!" In Naperville, Lawler recently detected unusually high cholesterol levels in one three-sport middle school athlete, who got medical attention and altered...
...surprised at this? In a culture where Ritalin is passed out like candy in grade-school, attention deficit disorder is equated with normal third-grade behavior and a statistically significant number of toddlers are going on antidepressants, why shouldn't dogs too should join in the pharmacological bonanza...
...does your typical nine-year-old boy react to the sight of a female classmate who towers over him and is sprouting breasts? Many boys may barely notice, so immersed are they in soccer, video games and other pleasures of the so-called latency period--the grade-school years when youngsters pay little heed to the opposite sex. "Boys of that age tend to regard girls almost like members of a different species," says Dr. Glenn Elliott, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. "They really don't have much concept...