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...didn't do any sort of formal training in wine appreciation. Did you sort of teach yourself? I had a big advantage. I grew up in it. The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood. No. 2, as people have gotten to know me and my intensity and my hustle, it's become very obvious why I was successful. Because this was the only thing I focused on. Every day, 18 hours...
There is no such thing as too extreme for Mike Roselle. The environmental activist has scaled the Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Rushmore to call attention to environmental issues and driven spikes into trees to sabotage loggers' chainsaws. He's even held camps to teach more than 1,000 youths how to do the same. Now Roselle has a new book, Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action. He talked with TIME about his choice of methods, where we're winning the battle against climate change and why politicians should be getting arrested...
...have no choice," says the Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC, founder of the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education, a sort of Catholic version of Teach for America, which trains college grads to work in underserved parochial schools. "We either reinvent ourselves or I don't see how we don't ultimately disappear from America's inner cities. The model upon which we were founded was so different, both from a cost and supply side...
Enrollment in Catholic schools peaked in the 1960s, when more than 5 million students attended nearly 13,500 parochial schools. Since then, both enrollment and the number of schools have dropped by more than half. Why? For starters, the number of priests, nuns and brothers able to teach for free has plummeted. In 1950, 90% of the teachers in Catholic schools came from religious orders; by 1967, the figure was 58%; today, it is 4%. This shift has meant that schools have had to raise tuition in order to pay more lay teachers. Meanwhile, increasingly middle-class Irish and Italian...
...Other opponents argue that the program flies in the face of France's egalitarian ideals regarding education - that students be taught that they're equal citizens regardless of their background and they should accept the responsibilities that go along with equality under the law. "We teach students, educate them and raise them in school, but we don't pay them," says Albert-Jean Mougin, vice-president of the union representing teachers at middle schools and high schools. "We mustn't turn education into a commodity, nor turn accepting responsibilities into transactions between students and educators...