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...students are foot soldiers in a growing revolt being waged in classrooms, car-pool lines and statehouses across the U.S. The enemy? The standardized exams being taken by so many kids in the final days of the school year. Unlike the fill-in-the-bubble tests of yesteryear, which often did little more than single out kids for accelerated classes, this exhaustive new breed of tests is increasingly used to determine not only whether students get diplomas but also whether the school gets funding and teachers get raises--not to mention whether students will spend their upcoming vacation sunning...
...here's my analysis: Buy what you can afford. The Handspring Visor, at $149, is kind of like the VW Bug of yesteryear. It's cheap, has a certain elegance and runs on the same gas as the Palm line. But if you want a luxury ride with tons of options, go with a Palm. Either way, you can still beam...
LOVE AND MARRIAGE Contrary to popular belief, and the marriage counseling of yesteryear, new studies have found that airing all your differences with your marital partner is likely to do more harm than good. Such arguing often leads to, well, more arguing. According to a study by Andrew Christensen at UCLA, couples who are less critical and more accepting of their differences have the most successful marriages. Couples can find an online survey related to this research at acceptancesurvey.com...
Comes now Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, after the Fall, promising to reclaim the lost virtues of yesteryear. Some have flocked to their sect--several of the aforementioned culture warriors, for instance. But they are, sadly, misled. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has taken what was low, danceable and popular from the swing era and amplified it. Their "Big Bad" has replaced a claim to nobility--replacing magnanimity with pomposity; their swagger has replaced a justly dignified comportment; and their music follows in tow. Which is not to say that they are unenjoyable--they are, in my opinion, the best...
What Blair needs to do is to get with his own program. A self-cast sensitive '90s man, Blair is known as the electric guitar player who reinvented Labour from a staid party of yesteryear to a modern force to be reckoned with. It was his own government that just passed a law which allows fathers up to 13 weeks of unpaid paternity leave during the first five years of each of their children's lives. With Booth already earning an estimated three times her husband's salary, Blair's missed paycheck should little affect the family's pocketbook...