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Parents at the Martin Luther King, Jr. School, one of two Cambridge primary schools that instituted an eight-hour class day last year, hold overwhelmingly positive opinions of the extra instruction time, according to a school survey...
...therapy, do no better. The rate is much the same with drug addiction, which experts see as the same disorder triggered by a different chemical. "The sad part is that if you look at where addiction treatment was 10 years ago, it hasn't gotten much better," says Dr. Martin Paulus, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. "You have a better chance to do well after many types of cancer than you have of recovering from methamphetamine dependence...
...Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Dewey--as did significant third parties: former President Millard Fillmore headed the anti-immigrant American Party ticket in 1856. Some New York candidates went straight from the campaign trail to the footnotes--Horatio Seymour, anyone?--but four New Yorkers managed to win eight presidential elections: Martin Van Buren (1836), Grover Cleveland (1884, 1892), Theodore Roosevelt (1904) and Franklin Roosevelt...
...record 16 world championships in the 1940s and '50s: both arms (twice), his collarbone (three times) and 27 bones in his face. After breaking a hand during a ride, he switched to the other one and won. His celebrity expanded in the early '80s when he sparred with Billy Martin in TV ads for Miller Lite. Of his medical adventures, Shoulders said, "You just learned to heal real quick...
...after they discarded Don Kirshner, who took his team of songwriters and backup musicians with him. And speaking of the boy-band era, remember when Britney Spears and the non-Timberlake members of 'N Sync decided to not rely so heavily on hit-crafters like Swedish producer-songwriter Max Martin and write their own songs? Anyone remember Spears' "Dear Diary"? Of course...