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Until next week, anyway. Despite her doubts, beating the waif who enchanted Barcelona and dazzled Atlanta represents a high degree of difficulty. Fu's jumping-bean antics have matured into an aquatic elegance that could raise this veteran above a crop of agile young rivals, some of whom perform the scary dives that were once her exclusive domain...
Parents must show a child how to perform the chore they want done (be clear, but don't elaborate too much) and give a reasonable deadline for the job. Then the parent should leave the area (unless a child is using a mower or similar tool for the first time). Do not supervise too closely--it is as nerve-racking for them as it would be for you if your boss hung out in your office...
...their victims. Beginning this fall, teachers statewide will use a curriculum created at Wellesley College that tackles bullying as early as kindergarten. Administrators at Liberty Middle School in Ashland, Va., started a similar program last year. Each week teachers meet with a group of 14 students and perform activities designed to promote interpersonal skills. Administrators have also created zero-tolerance disciplinary guidelines...
...took an office downtown at the shabby campaign headquarters. And over the next 18 months, he discovered things about his father and himself and the oily internal workings of national politics that cleared the way for everything that would come after. It was as though he got to perform the ultimate act of synthesis: take his father's weaknesses--his sometimes excessive loyalty to people, his reluctance to fire or even confront anyone, his lack of feeling for what was uppermost in voters' minds and hearts--and apply his own instincts to solve the problem. It turned...
...rows of arcane symbols that describe the gravitational weirdness of a black hole and, with a flourish, pull from them equations that look suspiciously like those that govern the will-o'-the-wisp interactions of subatomic particles. What's more, the associate professor of physics at Harvard University can perform the same trick in reverse, effectively concealing the rabbit back inside...