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...drink two glasses of wine every night before bed. Wait, did I just admit to alcoholism? 20. If you asked me to tell you my favorite movie, I would have a hard time not saying Titanic. (See the 100 best movies of all time.) 21. I once sent a teacher into early retirement by pretending to be a cheetah and swiping at her from under a desk. 22. I once ran into New Kids On the Block's Joey McIntyre in the lobby of an off-Broadway show. I told him he was the first boy I ever loved...
...what about people who work in less perilous, if equally unpredictable, environments - say, with children in public schools? Should teachers be randomly drug-tested too? Yes, says Linda Lingle, the Republican governor of Hawaii, where the teachers' union agreed in 2007 to negotiate terms of a new drug-testing program in exchange for higher wages. Now some Hawaii teachers are resisting. (So far, no drug tests have been administered.) The contentious issue of teacher testing has also become the subject of recent court cases in North Carolina and West Virginia, where educators argue that the cost and time taken...
...additional money for Medicaid should be part of a comprehensive health- insurance plan that creates a universal system of managed care for all Americans. The additional money for inner-city schools needs to be attached to education reform - longer school days and years, merit pay, the abolition of teacher tenure. And so forth. The money for those programs will be spent slowly, so it doesn't have to be authorized next week...
...agreed with the governor’s efforts to make them more accessible. But he objects to the enrollment stipulations, which he said will contribute to the problem of racially and socioeconomically segregated schools—a problem that Cambridge already faces. Robert C. Riordan—a former teacher and administrator in Cambridge Public Schools who now works for a network of charter schools in California—expressed the same concern, saying that the current proposal would mandate a trend towards segregated schools. “Such a requirement would throw the weight of the state behind...
...understand this is an exceptionally severe crisis, but we don't understand why the government isn't using exceptional responses to it to protect the majority of French workers who are suffering from it," said Adèle, a Paris region school teacher who gave only her first name as she assembled with other protesters at the Bastille. "More than ever, it's time the government thought about the little people - and take action so as many of us as possible keep our jobs, remain productive, and can keep consuming and contribute economically...