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Stop putting teachers down! In the schools I have taught in, teachers work very hard to provide a quality education for all students. Along with their subject area, they have to teach character, morals and basic hygiene; deal with disruptive students; and tackle numerous other tasks. Schools have become the place where a child is not only educated but also raised. Teachers can't do everything. Schools should be the place to send your child to learn, not to be raised. REBECCA M. GILLESPIE Elkhart, Kans...
DIED. CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, 78, brash, charismatic South African surgeon who performed the first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967; of an asthma attack; while vacationing in Cyprus. More dramatic than the surgery itself--Barnard called the technique "basic"--was that he proceeded when other heart-transplant surgeons, who had operated only on animals, were reluctant. An antiapartheid activist, he caused a stir when he later transplanted the heart of a young man of mixed race into a well-to-do white man. The thrice-married Barnard unabashedly enjoyed the fruits of his fame. "I love the female...
...basic tenet of business-world feminism that women are more collegial than combative males, that sisterhood is powerful. But a thought-provoking, politically incorrect new book turns that conventional wisdom upside down. If colleagues are sisters, the book holds, then look out: the workplace will be fraught with rivalry and dysfunction, because women often betray and undermine one another. (Think Linda Tripp.) "Without fail, in 20 years of conducting conferences and workshops about gender differences in business, almost every participant we've encountered has acknowledged that women damage other women's career aspirations," write authors Pat Heim and Susan Murphy...
...available for less than $300) capable of linking several computers. The downside? Higher power means higher power consumption--which reduces a laptop's battery life drastically. "It's physics," says Jeff Calcagno, vice president of strategy and corporate development at Widcomm, Inc. "There's always going to be that basic trade-off." Another potentially serious problem is the inherent security risk associated with beaming data through...
...women with babies younger than one are in the work force, according to census figures, and increasing numbers of them want to breast-feed their infants. Numerous scientific studies have suggested that breast milk is vastly superior to formula, not only for the mother's and child's basic health but also possibly for the child's early brain development. Given the evidence and lots of work by public health authorities, breast-feeding rates have climbed more than 16% in the past decade (although they are still lower than in nearly all developed countries...