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While "Snappy Crayons Strikes Back" could be categorized as modern dance, that term carries too much of an abstract, artsy connotation to describe the performance. Comical facial expressions and short story lines inject Whiteside's production with a theatrical feel that leaves the audience not only amazed at the physical dexterity of the dancers, but also thoroughly entertained. It is better labeled, then, as the company calls it: dance theater. "Snappy Crayons Strikes Back" plays not to just coffeehouse poets, but to anyone who likes a good laugh and a spectacular show...
...whole math really that bad? Few question the reformers' motives: to inject some much needed juice into American math education. But though the approach can certainly stimulate kids, it can just as easily leave them adrift. While the fifth-graders at Fernangeles were mulling over their handshake problem, a nearby fourth-grade class was fiddling with green and red tiles, trying to figure out how many green gates fitted into how many sections of red fence. "If there were 48 green doors," the teacher implored, "how many red fences do we need?" After a few minutes, one student incorrectly ventured...
...they called him. Or "Little Ice Water" or "Blazing Ben" or "the Hawk." Ben Hogan had almost as many nicknames as he did victories in golf's major championships, and that was nine. The sobriquets were mainly attempts to inject a little color into a man whose personality matched his no-nonsense golfing attire--white linen cap, beige shirt and sharply pressed slacks...
...genetically predisposed to drug abuse. What is not controversial is that the social cost of drug abuse, whatever its cause, is enormous. Cigarettes contribute to the death toll from cancer and heart disease. Alcohol is the leading cause of domestic violence and highway deaths. The needles used to inject heroin and cocaine are spreading aids. Directly or indirectly, addiction to drugs, cigarettes and alcohol is thought to account for a third of all hospital admissions, a quarter of all deaths and a majority of serious crimes. In the U.S. alone the combined medical and social costs of drug abuse...
...university administrators who can inject a rational perspective into public debate, the political arena, and on to campuses...