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...week and primary colors, in addition to trying to complete an art project and work on assorted social skills, such as raising one's hand before speaking--and all in 2 1/2 hrs. Debbie Wampler, beloved kindergarten teacher for 20 years at Wyngate Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., says she regrets that her class seems so hurried, "but there just isn't enough time to cover everything we need to cover." Her local school district has instigated a "reading initiative" as a way to prod the kindergartners to read by the end of the year, and Wampler is feeling...
...winner of the Eastern Championships, hosted by the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. will advance to the NCAA Championships, the main event of intercollegiate water polo...
Researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., looked at data from more than 10,000 white and black Medicare patients whose tumors were found early enough to make them candidates for surgery. About 77% of the white patients underwent the procedure, compared with 64% of blacks. The difference was sufficiently large to reduce the overall survival rate for black patients to 26% after five years, compared with 34% for whites. It's a gap that concerns the doctors. "People are dying needlessly," says Dr. Peter Bach...
Other grandparents try to share the turning points of their own lives with their grandchildren. Forty years ago, Dorris Alcott of Timonium, Md., took her first trip abroad, and her exposure to new people and places forever changed the way she viewed the world. This summer she decided to give her granddaughter Sylviane, 16, the same experience. "I felt having this at her age would be far more memorable than any little bit of money I could leave her--plus I'd have her to myself for three weeks!" Sylviane was moved by the experience of traveling with her grandmother...
Retirement communities too are recognizing the need to welcome not just grandparents but their grandchildren as well. Some, like Marriott's Bedford Court in Silver Spring, Md., schedule holiday celebrations to which grandchildren are invited. Others, realizing how much good the old and the young gain from rubbing elbows, have introduced intergenerational programs for all their residents. Goodwin House in Alexandria, Va., arranges activities that draw unrelated youngsters as well as grandchildren. "The young people stimulate mental health and a cheerful outlook in the elders, and [the young] gain from the mentoring by the seniors," says spokesman Andrew Morgan...