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...SHORTER SCHOOL DAY, A BROADER CURRICULUM Parents of potential students opposed expanding the school day from six to eight hours, as the Martin Luther King, Jr. School and the Fletcher Maynard Academy—two schools that have historically performed near the bottom on standardized tests—have done recently...
Still, by a more a two-to-one margin, potential parents said they opposed the one-third increase in the school day that the King and the Fletcher-Maynard have enacted. The study did not disaggregate the data to examine whether parents who applied to the two schools are more receptive to the idea of an eight-hour...
...environmentalists complain of the carbon-footprint and waste involved in sourcing organic produce from all over the globe: "Air freighting is an extremely relevant... concern, with regard to climate change, because organic farming is known to have a lower carbon footprint than non-organic farming," said Robin Maynard, spokesman for the U.K. Soil Association, Britain's biggest monitor of organic farming. "Wasteage also applies to all major retailers. There are horrifying figures on what the U.K. throws away...
...They're not the jobs players dream of - Mannelly tried to make the NFL as an offensive lineman, and Detmer would rather be tossing touchdown strikes than holding kicks. But long snappers and holders care deeply about their work. "I take pride in holding, absolutely," says Maynard. "I've held for some pretty good kickers, and I want people to remember it was something I was good at." He has only dropped two over a decade, so Maynard is certainly solid. But unfortunately, to be remembered, he'll have to muff one in the Super Bowl...
...playoff victory over the New York Giants). The two most important rules for a holder: first, get those laces out, toward the goal post, so the ball flies. And second, listen to your superior. "You've got to be open-minded to the kicker's needs," says Maynard. "The kicker may tell you one day to hold it like this, and the next day to do it a different way. Do what he tells...