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WHAT'S THE LATEST? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) surveyed 5,000 students ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade and found that girls who got from 70 to 300 min. of physical education per week scored consistently higher on standardized tests. More exercise also translated into increased classroom participation and concentration skills...
...moved to a new school district in the fourth grade. Sporting a fresh mushroom haircut, I was completely clueless about cannolis in a town that was 40 percent Italian-American. Naturally, I was one tacky Jessica McClintock gown and plastic tiara away from being prom queen...
...Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and TIME's Person of the Century, Albert Einstein, who share a small annex with Vincent Van Gogh, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. In the dim light of the first gallery, it looks as if Ivana Trump has made the grade. Closer inspection reveals the figure to be British actress Joanna Lumley in her big-haired role as Patsy from the British TV comedy series Absolutely Fabulous...
...Watching this fine television show reminded me that I, too, had a floral dress in the ’90s—in fact, I had several. One particularly excellent dress had a portrait collar with inspirational sayings embroidered on it. I wore it on picture day in first grade. There is nothing like a garish floral print to make one’s white eye patch pop. This season, defying all logic and reason, designers as diverse as Dries Van Noten and Dolce and Gabbana are delivering their takes on the floral print in a way we haven?...
...miracle never came, but his career in public life is sure to continue. As he explained to me in Iowa, he ended up losing that student council election in seventh grade to the popular football player. But that never slowed him down. It only made him work harder. "There was always," he said, "something deep in me that knew I am going to have to work really hard to get up to where the other kids are." At the age of 52, Huckabee is not done...