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...good place to start your visit is the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, which is positioned at the entrance to the Franklin Institute fi.edu) the city's expansive science museum. The cavernous inner dome houses a big Ben statue built to the same scale as the Lincoln Memorial. The museum's ode to Ben, displaying some of his many inventions, is a permanent exhibit called "Franklin... He's Electric." You can see an electrostatic machine, a clever long-reach device and a pair of swim fins (yes, he invented those...
...school with a "critical mass" of blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, you come away understanding the perspectives of minor-ities. But the fact is, a Michigan Law School student would learn a lot more about the "unique experience" of blacks in America if he spent a day at an inner-city school in Detroit than he would in a torts class with me. In fact, a white person who grew up poor has an equally or perhaps more diverse perspective, and yet my blackness counts so much more in affirmative action...
...what Witherspoon gives us in one perky package. Cameron Diaz does ditsy perpetual adolescence; Lucy Liu plays a sober, focused grownup; and Drew Barrymore, as befits one of the film's producers, has a backstory: once she was lost to addiction and male exploitation; now she's found both inner strength and martial artistry. All right, all right, you can't quite imagine Elle Woods ever being addicted to anything but high-end shopping, but you get the idea...
...Fourth of the July has never evoked images of red, white and blue American pride in my mind, but instead a series of disastrous or meaningless celebrations. I recall the time 12 years ago when my best friend spent the whole celebration at Baltimore’s inner harbor crying because, she claimed, a firework had inexplicably fallen from the sky and hit her eye. I think of July 5, the night my parents usually took me to see fireworks during my childhood so that we could avoid the crowds. I remember my high school friends complaining about the admission...
...about 60% of high schools now have AP classes. Since the same test is given to students across the country, AP has become the closest thing the U.S. has to a national curriculum. Many educators and politicians have assumed that offering it in urban schools means that inner-city students get the same education as their suburban counterparts. Secretary of Education Rod Paige and Florida Governor Jeb Bush are among AP's advocates, feeling that it guarantees students will have a rigorous curriculum. But AP can't make up for the stark differences that exist between schools or the students...