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...That the scores of American schoolchildren on math tests are far below the scores of Japanese schoolchildren on similar tests...
Should we give up? That's the subject of another piece, and certain aspects of our Skirmish with Substances are worthwhile; such as making it a extra-special crime to sell drugs to schoolchildren. Of course, when the schoolchildren try to sell drugs to you, this may be a hint about the state of the war just as leaving the embassy in Saigon was a hint that maybe the war in Vietnam wasn't going so well...
...Association had balked at an earlier proposal to have two wild-card teams in each league compete with the winners of the two existing divisions. The three-division plan represents an awkward compromise. Granted, three divisions in each league will finally bring geographic logic to baseball: no longer will schoolchildren grow up believing that St. Louis is really in the East and Atlanta in the West. But reconfiguring the two 14-team leagues into three divisions each is also inherently unfair: there will be only four, not five, teams in the Western outposts of both leagues...
...semiautomatic, though inaccurate, are cheap, terrifying, easily hidden and handily converted to automatic. Sales have soared since 1989, when President Bush banned the import of semiautomatic assault rifles such as the Chinese-made AK-47 knock-off used by a deranged gunman to shoot schoolchildren in Stockton, California...
...leadership of managing director Deborah Borda and conductor Kurt Masur, recently instituted a series of informal Rush Hour Concerts, which begin at 6:45 p.m. and feature off-the-cuff commentary from the podium before each piece. The New York musicians also open up the stage to local schoolchildren, encouraging them to try out the instruments, as do players in Baltimore and elsewhere. "It is wonderful to interact with the kids and to see my colleagues do something from the heart," says Baltimore flutist Mark Sparks, the main force behind his orchestra's program. And if minority audiences will...