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...involved, but make sure it's constructive. Parents of successful students are advocates for their child but are supportive, rather than combative, toward the school. "These aren't parents who blame you and want to know why the system didn't come through for their child," says Shirley Harden, principal of Winand Elementary, Donny Williams' alma mater. "They want to know how they can work with you and make things best for their kids...
There kids absorb the values of peers and find a niche in the local ecology. They become known as tough or nice or wacky or wicked, and personality starts to harden. Granted, parents can shape behavior within the home. But in the wider world, Harris argues, the child is a different person, and there lie the roots of the budding adult...
...Britain and China, had launched intense diplomacy to dissuade Pakistan from retaliatory tests. By last Tuesday, a CIA satellite overhead had observed trucks moving away from the Chagai site and concrete being poured to seal the underground test chamber. Calculating the time it would take the cement to harden so nuclear fallout wouldn't escape, the CIA predicted that the blast could occur by early Thursday...
However, if student were to use the Harvard insignia on a personal web page in conjunction with selling a product, advocating a political cause or soliciting support for charity, Harvard's stance would markedly harden...
...REAL DRAG Everyone's arteries begin to harden with age, but the pace is significantly hastened if you breathe secondhand smoke. Moreover, among actual smokers, the arterial damage may be irreversible--even after quitting...