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...Boom!" Leroy Hayes describes sitting in his seventh-grade English class at Philadelphia's Shoemaker Middle School when he heard the explosion. It was startling but not necessarily surprising, he says. Crazy stuff happened all the time at Shoemaker. Once, he recalls, a student urinated into a soda bottle during class and threw it in a math instructor's face. Crazy stuff. After hearing the big explosion, Hayes and his friends rushed out of the room and discovered that someone had set off fireworks in the corridor. "The school was in chaos," the 11th-grader remembers of the 2005 incident...
...Shoemaker was considered one of Philadelphia's most troubled schools. Fewer than a third of its eighth-graders exhibited proficiency on the state math exam. Fewer than half were proficient in reading. Violence was common, and students had full run of the hallways. Most of the bulletin boards had been torched, and the principal's office had metal bars on the windows. One teacher says even the UPS guy was hesitant to go inside. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...overall records of these two teams are misleading. The last six games provide a clearer picture: Brown, 1-5, and Penn, 3-3. The Quakers topped the Bears three weeks ago on a contentious tip-in at the buzzer. That game was in Providence. This game is in Philadelphia, the fourth of five straight home games for Penn. Zack Rosen’s reputation continues to grow after engineering the upset over Cornell (“We expected to win,” he deadpanned after the game). I like the resurgent Quakers grabbing another win over struggling Brown...
...understand the Renoir of "Renoir in the 20th Century," which runs in Los Angeles through May 9 then moves to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you have to remember that before he became a semiclassicist, he was a consummate Impressionist. You need to picture him in 1874, 33 years old, painting side by side with Monet in Argenteuil, teasing out the new possibilities of sketchy brushwork to capture fleeting light as it fell across people and things in an indisputably modern world...
...hard to say how many families cling to the belief that vaccines cause autism, but they are likely a minority. Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the infectious-diseases division at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and author of Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, says he has received hundreds of grateful letters from parents of autistic children thanking him for debunking the autism-vaccine connection. But he has also received death threats, as recently as a month ago. "It's easy to scare people," says Offit. "But it's extremely hard...