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...PHOTOGRAPHY NOW SUSAN BRIGHT Forget twilit still lifes and peachy nudes. The photography in Bright's lively survey of 80 artists who work with cameras has more to do with staged scenes of suburban anxiety, mock heroic tableaux of heavily armed children and the determined contemplation of whatever is enigmatic or unnerving. (There are a fair number of nudes, though none you would think to call peachy.) Thanks to Bright, you also get to enjoy the sight of Kate Moss, above, in a picture by the photo-collaborators Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, holding a lit cigarette between her toes...
Such lessons also teach students to show respect for others as well as to be punctual, responsible and work well in teams. Those skills were badly missing in recently hired high school graduates, according to a survey of over 400 human-resource professionals conducted by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. "Kids don't know how to shake your hand at graduation," says Rudolph Crew, superintendent of the Miami-Dade school system. Deportment, he notes, used to be on the report card. Some of the nation's more forward-thinking schools are bringing it back. It's one part...
...hand, girls’ schools have created fertile learning spaces for their students. Girls from single sex institutions are more likely to study math and science, to study advanced placement subjects, and to study, period. Presumably they spend less time attending to grooming and garment selection. (According to one survey, girls at a single sex school estimated they saved 45 minutes a day when they began attending a single sex school and wearing uniforms...
...Covenant IV: Fostering Accountable Community-Centered Policing.” It contains facts about racial profiling (over 10 percent of black drivers were searched or had their vehicle searched during a traffic stop in 2002, compared to 3.5 percent of white drivers, according to a survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics) and police brutality (about 84 percent of the over 4000 acts of police violence against African Americans in 2001 were committed by white officers, according to a study by the International Association of Chiefs of Police...
...plans to turn fat studies into an academic track, according to Flood, though she said she expects to see more integration of weight and body issues into the Harvard curriculum, reflecting an increased interest in the subject among Harvard students. “If you were to conduct a survey of Harvard undergraduates, I think you would find that a large number, mostly women but men too, spend more time thinking about weight than they’d like,” Flood said. An interdisciplinary course about obesity may be in the spirit of the Core Curriculum that currently...