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Ice Cream on the Brain
Throughout history, even in the caves of Neanderthals, legend says children have maintained they are so full it would be impossible to swallow one more bite of mastodon spleen or even a single Green Giant pea. Yet, miraculously, seconds later, the same youngsters can profess discovery in their stomachs of a little-known dessert compartment, which is, by good fortune, quite available for filling with cookies, cake or ice cream. Parents suspicious of such timely, documentation-free claims should note now that, in fact, such a compartment has been found by British researchers. It's just not in the stomach; it's in the brain.
Lawyers' New Ethical Duties
Lawyers don't take kindly to other people telling them how to do their jobs. But in the aftermath of Enron and WorldCom, corporate scandals in which attorneys coached companies on what they could get away with, change is in order. They should be required to report corporate wrongdoing that threatens to destroy shareholder wealth and strip employees of their hard-earned pensions.
The immersion challenge
WITH THE START of the school year, Massachusetts is embarking on an experiment in educating students whose first language is not English. Voters approved a ballot question last November that ended bilingual education for most of the 50,000 children in this category. Districts will be challenged to make the new practice -- English immersion -- work at the same time MCAS requires both math and verbal skills. Pessimists say many districts will simply revert to the immersion practices of 30 years ago, before bilingual education, when language-minority students often floundered and dropped out at rates much higher than other groups. As flawed as bilingual education was, often failing to educate students well in either their own language or English, it did curb dropout rates.
Cartoons
Don Wright
Gary Varvel
Rob Rogers
Jeff Danziger