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Unfortunately, Ingram didn’t do her homework. If she had, she would have discovered that British rail privatization has been a disaster, that, in fact, the British system has been substantially “deprivatized” after dozens of passengers were killed or maimed on the system, and that today, Britain is spending a lot more public money on its national rail passenger system than it was prior to privatization...
...drive their children to activities on average almost three days a week. Both types of mom get their children to help with chores almost five days a week. Both eat dinner with their kids nearly five days a week. Both moms - in combination with the dads - help kids with homework more than six times a week...
...allocate their minutes. This research makes an important distinction between accessible time and engaged time. Accessible time is when the parent is present, but the kid is playing or watching television while mom cooks and cleans. Engaged time is direct interaction - snuggling, talking, reading books, eating together, and checking homework. A fascinating report on this came out last week from Suzanne Bianchi at the University of Maryland. She concluded that a working mom engages with her child 42 minutes less per day than a stay-at-home...
...play video games not play them?" Iwata has been asking himself, and his employees, that question for the past five years. And what Iwata has noticed is something that most gamers have long ago forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called a d-pad. In a game like Halo, players have to manipulate both joysticks simultaneously while working both triggers and pounding half a dozen...
...case that from the start had been ghastly to ponder became even messier. The defense lawyers criticized Nifong for bringing the case before he did his homework. They accused him of trying the case in the media. And they whispered that politics was involved. Nifong, they said, was rushing things to show some progress on a case that is racially charged--black victim, white suspects--before May 2, when he seeks election against two Democratic rivals in a county that is 50% white and 40% African American...