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WHAT PARENTS HATE ABOUT TEACHERS IS that they rely on us to do their job! Parents should not be expected to morph into tutors by night. I agree that teachers work hard and deserve to be paid appropriately for it, but that's what tax dollars are for. Teachers and parents at odds should turn to their local board of education for solutions...
According to Koenig, “being willing to take a rest day” is important, as is “not letting weariness or exhaustion morph into some serious calamity that can knock us off the hike...
WALT DISNEY HAD a cunning formula: use the highest illustrative art to make horror movies for kids. Next to Pinocchio (play hooky and you will morph into a donkey), Bambi is the most artful and potent--and the scariest--of Walt's early features. After the youngsters have watched a movie in which a child sees its mother shot and killed, the grownups can stay around to see deleted scenes and ancient storyboards. Later, the kids can play the eight interactive games...
...state level (notably in California, which passed a $3 billion stem-cell bond measure), political pressure at the national level kept such research on the back burner. Meanwhile, there were several advances in the effort to get adult stem cells to work like embryonic stem cells (which can morph into any type of cell in the body). One small study involved heart patients undergoing bypass surgery. In half the patients, stem cells harvested from bone marrow in their hipbones were injected into their damaged heart tissue. The results were encouraging, but researchers don't know whether the stem cells transformed...
...illustrator of superhero the Flash, nemesis of such bad guys as the Thinker and the Shade; in Boca Raton, Fla. Lampert and writer Gardner Fox first introduced the "fastest man alive" in 1940 as the Golden Age of comic books was just unfolding. Their Flash--a scientist who could morph into a red-and-blue--clad speedster with a winged helmet--was an immediate hit. But Lampert, who preferred drawing gags for Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, left after a few issues, later founding an award-winning ad agency...