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Which suggests a classroom technique for ADHD kids: Don't overly tax their working memory. Rapport, who used to be a school psychologist, says the average teacher doesn't understand how ADHD kids process information. "If you go into a typical classroom," he told me, "you might hear, 'Take out the book. Turn to page 23. Do items 1 through 8, but don't do 5.' And you've just given them four or five directions. The child with working-memory problems has dropped three of them, and so he's like, 'Page 23 - what I am supposed...
...rare to hear someone from your camp sound so hopeful about the Department of Agriculture...
...since fought an ongoing battle against U.S. authorities seeking to deport him. In 2005 an immigration court ruled that he could be sent to Germany, Poland or his native Ukraine, and last May, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case. The charges brought against him in Germany were triggered by recently obtained lists of Jews transported to Sobibor during Demjanjuk's alleged tenure at the camp...
...little surprised to hear this from Col. Hazar. I had spent the day walking through the Colonel's area of operations, in the mixed Arab-Kurdish (though mostly Kurdish) towns of Karach and Machmour, south of Mosul. Everyone I spoke with who was even remotely connected to the military or government assured me, at least to start, that in these areas, Arabs and Kurds were like brothers and had lived together for hundreds of years. "The problems are government problems," said Saber Sharif Ahmed, a Kurdish primary school teacher, before introducing me to the local secondary school teacher...
...That mounting pressure pushed Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to announce Saturday that he would step down. At first, friends and enemies alike wondered if it was a trick by the wily politician to bolster the besieged government. But on Monday Gyurcsany said his resignation was permanent. "I hear that I am the obstacle to the cooperation required for changes," he reportedly stated at a congress of his Socialist party (MSzP) over the weekend. "If so, then I am eliminating this obstacle...