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...miss a major roadblock: parents. Even the most gifted teachers cannot inspire students whose parents do not instill in them the importance of education. Parents need to take responsibility by reading to children when they are very young, turning off the television and video games when they are older, making sure they are completing their homework and demanding that they respect not only their teachers but the concept of education as well. Cara A. Tonn, Roseville, Mich...
Orange County water officials decided to solve both problems at the same time. The result is the Groundwater Replenishment System (GRS), a glistening, $480 million facility that sits next to an older sewage-treatment plant. The GRS takes in about 70 million gal. of wastewater a day, puts it through a multistep cleaning process, then discharges the treated water into Orange County's aquifers. About half forms a barrier against seawater, which has been infiltrating groundwater sources as the county has dried up, while the other half slowly filters into the aquifers that supply drinking water for the county...
...that. And while I'm not sitting here pulling out my gray hairs, I'm a dad, I'm growing up, and that's O.K. There are bands like Green Day that have done it before, or the Clash, which did it before them. It's O.K. to get older, and it's O.K. to be cool with...
...worked out.Finally back at Harvard, Peisker is completing her requirements while putting her thesis to paper. And she says the benefits of going abroad were not purely academic. Ealier this month, Peisker, who was raised Protestant, was confirmed at a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Now, older, wiser, and Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Peisker says she plans to return to the university in Lviv next year to coordinate a master’s program in ecumenical studies, specifically on interchurch relations.THE WORLD AS A CLASSROOMChanequa N. Campbell ’09 says she had a different outlook...
Although hostility to some information (like sex education) is nothing new, we now know how high the real costs of inaction are. When teenage girls were told in a randomized experiment in Kenya that older men are more likely to be HIV-positive than boys, they made better choices and tried to avoid richer but more dangerous partners...