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...forming hand-holding circles with all the girls' arms crisscrossing in the middle, and then trying to untangle without releasing hands. Sullen teens and tweens would not seem the best candidates for such an exercise, but at Lower Dauphin, they go at it gamely. "This is not for speed," Eberly reminds them. "Go slowly and listen to one another...
...September. Great results - but they were not enough, or soon enough, to prevent last fall's riots. "When you're trying to catch up on nearly 40 years of wasted time in five short years, it takes a while for the machine to start, warm up and pick up speed," says the Minister. "We're like a new business: it takes time for the first results to start showing." That's a motto that could apply to his own career. Unlike Villepin or Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, who have changed positions in and out of government over...
...latest standards of care. Many doctors have concluded that there is something of a sweet spot on the age-education-experience continuum. They seek out clinicians who are no more than 10 years out of residency, old enough to have some mileage, young enough to be up to speed. There is actually some hard data for this rule. A review published last year in the Annals of Internal Medicine examined the connection between a doctor's years in practice and the quality of care he or she provided. To the surprise of everyone--including the review's author, Harvard Medical...
DIED. Scott Crossfield, 84, civilian aircraft designer and cold war test pilot who in 1953 became the first man to fly at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound--a record that spurred his rival, U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager, to surpass it a month later; in a crash of Crossfield's single-engine Cessna in the mountains north of Atlanta. One of the post--World War II supersonic-jet aviators whom author Tom Wolfe said had "the right stuff," Crossfield dismissed the macho image of his field, saying that for most pilots he knew, the "main interest outside...
Until recently, the billboard alongside Highway 1 in Bac Ninh province offered only empty promises. "Applying Unity and Creativity Will Speed Up Industrialization," it stated, portraying happy factory workers staring rapturously at a hammer and sickle. But Bac Ninh, like most of northern Vietnam, had been largely left out of the country's economic growth in the past decade. When Pham Thi Nhan, 19, graduated from high school last year, she saw few work prospects other than helping her family grow rice, an occupation that earns them about $400 a year. Nhan thought of moving south like her uncle...