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...work only if both sides abandon their unattainable goals, stop squandering their wealth and their children's future in pointless conflict, and start exhibiting the maturity needed to reach a compromise. Roy Weston Burnaby, Canada Rice's style of diplomacy is stalled at the level of a sixth-grader. Girls that age start making two lists: one naming their best friends and an even longer one of the people they will never, ever talk to. Rice and U.S. President George W. Bush are best friends, but the list of people, parties, organizations and countries they won't talk...
...Such sharp animosity isn't unusual in the disputatious field of human evolution studies, where as Thorne points out, "There are more human evolutionists than there are fossils to go along with them." But the Flores debate seems to bring out the inner fifth-grader in grownups with PhDs. After Brown was quoted in Discover magazine this past January saying that Eckhardt was "thick as a plank" for trying to refute Homo floresiensis, Eckhardt attended a scientific meeting where he took off his shirt and had his wife measure his chest. "We were able to establish to the satisfaction...
...have stories to tell; they become natural narrators, sitting together under a tree, smelling of dirt and sunscreen, comparing what being 8 or 12 or 16 means in Canton, or Fox Chapel, or Bronxville. But then in another violation of the school-year space-time continuum, my rising sixth grader can have as her best summer friend the neighbor across the street, who hikes and kayaks and became a grandmother this year. The sixth graders don't play with the seventh graders at school; but four decades is as nothing in the summertime...
...Gates has spent most of his life around computers. He initially encountered them as a seventh-grader in 1967 when the proceeds from a mothers' club rummage sale were used to buy a machine for Seattle's Lakeside School. Gates devised a class-scheduling program so that he could take courses with the prettiest girls ... Teaming up with Paul Allen, a friend and schoolmate, Gates formed a pint-size company, Traf-O-Data, that studied traffic patterns for small towns near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000 ... While he was working...
Brita Butler-Wall, executive director of Seattle-based Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, has been lobbying the school board for more than a year to get rid of the Coca-Cola contract. Yet, as a parent of an eighth-grader in a local public school, she says, "I don't want to see our district spending its money hiring more lawyers to fight a legal battle." Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, says, "If you want to influence the school board, you run for a seat on the board. Threatening...