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...interviews with educators in eight states this month, TIME reporters heard such worries repeatedly. Debbie Peņa, supervisor of gifted education for the Garden Grove Unified School District, south of Los Angeles, says her school system discourages grade skipping and instead approaches the challenge of exceptional children with this question: "How is it [that] we can meet the needs of gifted kids in a regular classroom without saying, 'Gee, you're 5, but you can read at a seventh-grade level, [so] let's put you up to at least sixth grade'? It doesn't make sense at a social...
Film lovers will luxuriate in the extraordinary imagery: a sword point that slo-mo slices through drops of water; soldiers squatting in a circle, caked in clay; lovers curled into each other, sleeping under red silk; a sword fight in a grove of golden leaves that turn red, plum, magenta and fall like fat confetti. In the film's design, color creates context. Each story Nameless tells is draped in a different hue: gray, red, blue, white, green. (In the fifth episode, a lake shimmers like lime Jell-O.) At the end, reality forces a new color on Nameless: black...
...that fell off it, and are more than ready for camp. But just before we get there is the Bend, which - since the photo of it by the late Peter Dombrovskis galvanized the anti-dam campaign - has become the river's iconic image, a tall island topped by a grove of trees clinging to its craggy head, a fine spray flaring around it. It is our high point; after that the rapids dwindle, and we paddle hard over long flat stretches for the next two days between sharp limestone banks where snakes lie warming in the sun. Finally, we swim...
...four-hour trip across rough road. Teams used to camp by the banks of the Gregory River, and regulars speak wistfully of those times. Alas, local authorities banned the practice, pushing the scientists a little further north to the more comfortable, if less invigorating, facilities of Adels Grove camping ground...
...Steffey and Naito, are now embroiled in contested races. So is Supreme Court Justice Rives Kistler, the only openly gay high-court judge in the U.S., who was unopposed before March 3. "The process was so dumbed up that it has been a distraction," says Democratic pollster Lisa Grove. "In the end, I'm not sure whose side it helps...