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...retardation. Potter knew that almost all Down patients who live long enough eventually develop brain lesions identical to those detected in autopsies of Alzheimer's sufferers. By scouring the scientific literature, he learned that people with Down syndrome are very sensitive to tropicamide, the drug used to dilate the pupil of the eye. Potter then approached Leonard Scinto, a neuroscientist now at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, about the possibility of using the drug to spot Alzheimer...
...lesson in a course on the history of philosophy. At first by letter and then in person, a mysterious guru who calls himself Alberto Knox guides Sophie through the ideas of great thinkers, from the pre-Socratics to Jean-Paul Sartre. Philosophy's quest for truth, Knox tells his pupil, "resembles a detective story...
...everyone. Not one charter bill has passed a state legislature without controversy. The reason: charter schools take money right out of the pockets of their rivals -- the conventional public schools. In most states, the money simply follows the student. Thus, if the district spends $5,000 a year per pupil, and 30 children choose to attend the new charter instead of the local middle school, as much as $150,000 -- depending on district administrative costs and categorical grants -- would go directly to the charter rather than the other district schools...
...Project's aims for participating schools--three of which will open in Massachusetts in 1995--include providing a computer in the home of every school-age child, lengthening the school day and mandating a 17-to-one pupil-teacher ratio...
...Hartford Courant drops two weeks of Little Orphan Annie after the pupil- less heroine is railroaded into an insane asylum. Says the publisher: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions...