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First Jordan, then Gretzky, now (maybe) Nakajima. HIROFUMI NAKAJIMA of Kofu, Japan, the undisputed world hot dog-eating champion, may not return to Coney Island July 4 to try to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for a third time. The 131-lb. "Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan...
Character education is a return to the original goal of public education: to develop the whole child morally and intellectually. But TIME seemed to want to trivialize what is occurring in schools. You chose largely to make fun of the visible aspects of how character is taught rather than probe into the deeper and more meaningful teaching time in which character education is embedded in the curriculum and entire school climate. Children are much more engaged when they have reading or history lessons that draw out ethical and moral issues rather than just rote learning of names and dates...
...joined the debate over whether spanking deters bad behavior or teaches kids it's O.K. to use violence for resolving disputes. A new law explicitly allows parents to spank their children and stipulates that official records of abuse charges be erased if the parent is cleared. Proponents hailed the return of discipline, while critics noted that expunging documents will make it harder to track abusive parents...
...taken its toll on public opinion about both the performance of the Clinton-Gore Administration and the direction of the country in general. And it remains far from certain that Gore and Chernomyrdin can meet the standard of success they agreed upon that night last month: the safe return of Kosovar refugees. Still, it is hard to imagine a worse disaster for Gore than the prospect of a campaign season with U.S. ground troops in a war with the Serbs...
...immediate hopes for an independent Republic of Kosovo. Instead of gloriously liberating--and then governing--Kosovo, the battle-ready K.L.A. now must demilitarize. And there is no clear mission for it in postwar Kosovo. Policemen? Militia? NATO hopes the K.L.A.'s fighting waiters and bus drivers will simply return to their jobs...