Word: ideas
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...general way, advertising it as a supplement without citing any specific medical benefits. Until formal studies are conducted, those restrictions will stand. Even without a government green light, however, kava will probably remain popular, sold as an antianxiety herb that dare not call itself that. "People like the idea of feeling mellow but staying alert," says Blumenthal. "That's what kava does." The question is, At what cost...
Back in 1992, when Georgia Governor Zell Miller first floated the idea of publicly funding pre-K, his plan was roundly derided as state-sponsored baby sitting. Yet today Georgia's $217 million program serves 61,000 kids, and is so popular with parents that some camp out all night to be first to register. Miller now advocates mandatory enrollment. "If I had a choice of pre-K or 12th grade being mandatory," he says, "I'd take pre-K in a second...
...great pictures, which changed the face of American art, and look as fresh and strong today as they must have 50 years ago, when they emerged from his shack of a studio on New York's Long Island. But how great is "great"? Meaning has drained out of the idea of greatness because today it is so inextricably confused with fame, and fame with celebrity, all on the dumb level of publicity--and Pollock is the most publicized and celebrated artist in American history...
...dark, unconsulted levels of feeling, in the hope that art could release his inner shaman, antlers, rattle and all. Hence the portentous "mythic" subjects of his pictures (The Moon Woman Cuts the Circle, Pasiphae and so on) and their general ooga-wooga atmosphere. As Varnedoe writes, "The godsend, liberating idea for him was the one he got simultaneously from looking at modern art and listening to his therapists: the principle that art could ultimately depend not on acquired talents but on inner resources, no matter how disturbed that inner life was." But could you make major art based largely...
Every teacher needs to remember Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences when planning lessons and attempting to meet diverse learning styles in the classroom. Gardner's idea that we each have separate intellectual capacities provides a richer and more satisfying experience for my students. Gone are the days of simply lecturing in front of the class, although, tragically, many educators still follow that path. Gardner is invited to see the positive results of his theory in my classroom at any time. You made me wonder if the IQ-test manufacturers feel threatened by MI. JENNIFER REAM SHAF Arvada, Colo...