Word: magnetize
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Mark Helprin, novelist and occasional Dole speechwriter, maintains he's no babe magnet. That, however, hasn't stopped a love-hungry soul from posing as him in personal ads, according to the New York Observer. Helprin, who's married (and something of a practical joker), can't understand why he was chosen. "If he looks like me," he says, "I understand why he's having trouble...
...breeding grounds for zaniness, despite what so many sitcom producers would have us believe. Most of us do not jump up and down on trampolines placed next to our desks like the team on the short-lived software-company sitcom Dweebs. Most of us do not have catastrophe-magnet assistants afflicted with a taste for awful vintage clothing like the architects on last year's unfunny Partners. And most of us do not seek inspiration by unfurling toilet paper all over our desks like the copywriters on last season's insipid ad-world sitcom Good Company...
...public, private or parochial schools. States and the Federal Government would split the $5 billion cost. While dead set against using public money to send children to private school, the White House supports a form of school choice in which parents could shop among competing public schools. That means magnet schools, which offer enhanced programs, or the independent "charter" schools, now found in many states, which set their own rules in matters like what to teach and how to spend money, but are subject to government oversight and evaluation...
...body, leaving it up to the Governor and state legislature. That means there will be ample opportunity to devise an integration strategy that the state's citizens can live with. More than likely, both sides agree, the eventual solution will emphasize voluntary programs such as cross-district transfers and magnet schools that will benefit all students. There was no reason for panic--though state officials' heated rhetoric threatened to produce some...
...products of science shape and pervade our lives. Sir Francis Bacon made this point in 1620. "Printing, gunpowder, and the magnet," he wrote, "have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world...no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs." Modern equivalents are legion: consider e-mail, nuclear weapons, biotechnology...