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...died out in a few years, but it took ages for the technology to improve. As recently as 2005, those same cheesy specs were handed out at screenings of Robert Rodriguez's The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D. The glasses at 3-D attractions in theme parks were a little less ornery and more advanced, as were the ones used for Polar Express - an apt title, by the way, considering the polarized glasses used...
...lost love. While they were able to achieve some meaning, this soon came to an abrupt end when the elderly man who’d been leading their creative endeavor simply stood up and walked away. The second play, “Cascando,” continued this theme, with a writer desperate to finish the ultimate story before going to sleep. But his desperation to finish the story, about a man named Woburn, only drove him deeper into madness. In the meantime, another character, known as “The Opener,” sat on a chair...
...teacher at this institution of about 250 nursery and primary schoolers, which serves one of the most deprived sections of Nottingham. Charged with rejuvenating the state-run school, where "children come in well below national averages," Chambers has taken the innovative approach of organizing all subjects around a single theme, which the students themselves select by simple vote. "We were in a situation where we could take that risk," Chambers says. Past semesters have been centered on Africa, the Titanic and chocolate. This semester, students were given the stipulation that the organizing principle would be a book, and Harry Potter...
...theme-based approach has catalyzed a dizzying rise in academic achievement at Robert Mellors. Three years ago it was languishing in the bottom quarter of English schools; it has since vaulted into the top 25%. A September visit from Ofsted, England's educational inspection body, yielded a rating of "outstanding," and special kudos were given for the school's ability to mentor pupils with learning disabilities or behavioral problems. "The school recognizes that pupils will only be successful if lessons are stimulating," the report said...
...Dirty Socks.” “I write about suburban situations, and very normal people and very normal situations. I like writing about people who don’t normally get songs written about them,” Iconis says. “If there is a theme, it is sort of accidentally about young people feeling like they have so much they want to prove and want to say and not enough time to say it and do it.” Some of his songs, such as “Joey is a Punk Rocker...