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...This type of technology is exactly what we need if we are going to keep the bacteria out of the food supply:" said Caroline Smith Dewaal, director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an independent consumer advocacy group. "We need to have farmers address the bacteria before the cattle go to slaughter...
Most people approach exercise with the idea that it has to hurt to be effective. Inspiring Nike ads of Emmitt Smith sweating through his rigorous preseason training program or Brett Favre taking a massive hit from a defenseman instead of sliding safely to the ground, hammer into our minds that "no pain, no gain" is the only way physical exertion pays...
...Smith also argued that readers did not see every letter in a word or every word in a text. If they did and if they tried to translate what they saw into sounds, reading would be much too cumbersome. Somehow, though, children learned to read. To explain this, Smith adapted theories about the acquisition of oral language. In the mid-'60s the linguist Noam Chomsky had determined that a child's brain is actually wired with the rules of all spoken languages. Immersed in the world of speech, the child learns by experience which rules apply to the language...
Goodman's and Smith's theories have been put into practice very directly. At a whole-language school in New York City that TIME visited, a first-grade teacher had put a Post-it on the last word on every page of a book. The children tried to guess the hidden words. "Why do I cover words when we read a new book?" the teacher asked. "So that we can practice our skipping strategy. That's your most important skill...
...founded on the very same principles and beliefs that men in the Promise Keepers movement hold true today [NATION, Oct. 6]. They recognize the need for strong male role models. These fathers and leaders have stepped forward to reintroduce our morally bankrupt nation to God. STEPHANIE SMITH Sacramento, Calif...