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Every parent of a schoolchild is familiar with the counter. It's that imposing bit of architecture in the main office that many administrators use to keep parents at bay. "I hated that thing," says Steve Constantino. So when he became principal of Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas, Va., he immediately ripped the counter...
...GIVE PARENTS TALKING POINTS. TIME's High School of the Year, Stonewall Jackson, in Manassas, Va., is only one of the schools that are using Internet and voicemail systems to encourage parents to stay informed about what the kids are doing in school. Parents in Forsyth County, Ga., can log onto a website that shows everything from the levels that students must achieve on Georgia's standardized exam to what their child's next term paper is on--and when it's due. "I have to admit I don't go to PTA meetings, but I can check...
There's something about the Nintendo campus that just heaves with secrecy. Its whitewashed buildings with black-tinted windows, closely shrouded by trees, seem more like Langley, Va., than suburban Seattle. Even if you sneak in, you won't find Nintendo's powerful new video-game console, the GameCube, in any of the display cases. Nor will you hear the staff speak the names of the games that will be released for it. "We've said the right amount on GameCube, which is nothing," chuckles the sagelike executive vice president Peter Main. "We've got our friends across the road...
...that dodge ball--also called murder ball and killer ball in some places--could be an incubator for later aggressive, even violent behavior. "The whole game to [some kids] is about hitting someone as hard as they can and laughing," says Lilla Atherton, a fifth-grader in Fairfax County, Va., where the game has been banned. "If a boy doesn't throw hard and make a hit, the other boys call him a girl." Critics charge the sport isn't even good exercise, since it typically leaves the weakest, most overweight kids--the ones usually knocked out first...
...make $100,000 a year. And because the U.S. doesn't want to send active-duty soldiers, the narcowars have come to serve as a retirement plan for ex-U.S. military folks looking for somewhere to put their skills to work. Military Professional Resources Inc., of Alexandria, Va., recently wrapped up a yearlong, $6 million mission to help organize and improve the Colombian military. That has made some professional U.S. soldiers itchy. "The employment of private corporations to provide military assistance, specifically the training of other nations' armies to fight wars, should not be an instrument of U.S. foreign...