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...have three thousand six hundred seconds dissipate into thin air--well, things start to get a little suspicious. As we went to change our clocks this past weekend, it became necessary to ask ourselves the tough questions: Is it not unjust to deny precious seconds to a student demographic whose schedule-juggling is already a feat of Herculean proportions? Why does no one think to factor in the additional ten minutes that we lose in our attempts to readjust our watches? Why does it always seem to fall right after spring break, when we need that extra hour of detox...
...Save the Earth," with articles by such distinguished conservationists as Edward O. Wilson and Richard Leakey, among others. The 2.8 million subscribers of our (kid) sister magazine TIME FOR KIDS will receive their own special issue, called "Kid Heroes for the Planet," featuring projects initiated by kids to save precious places from environmental hazards...
...snapping up translucent blueberry-tinted computers, bubbled cars and little chrome cell phones as fast as they can be produced. We're fully employed, and we want something to show for it, even if we're not Internet billionaires. So where design used to be considered vaguely precious, the province of the Sub-Zero-refrigerator-owning elite, it's now available to all--from the crowd that shops at Target to those aesthetes who can pick out an Enzo Mari from 20 paces. If we learned anything from the barbaric old '80s, we learned that more is not enough...
Edison focuses on instilling pride and discipline in youngsters who may have known precious little of either. At Edison's Granville Charter School, which opened two years ago in a former government building in Trenton, N.J., board chairman William Granville Jr. recalls how students initially covered the walls with graffiti and ran shouting down hallways. Today, after hours of instruction devoted to such concepts as dignity and self-respect, orderly students file through spotless white corridors and volunteer to sweep litter off the carpeted floors...
...sight. Doesn't America have any leverage with which to persuade the OPEC nations (Saudi Arabia, the emirates and other cartel members) to reconsider their production cuts and resultant price increases? We could stop monitoring Iraq and let OPEC feel the pinch of scarcity of another precious resource--U.S. military power and the security it provides. WILLIAM J. ROBERTS Fort Walton Beach...