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...umbilical cords are meant to comfort anxious parents, they can backfire. "Now we get phone calls that are like, 'I saw my kid on your website, but he wasn't smiling. Is everything O.K.?'" says Richard Moss, who has run Camp Lenox in Massachusetts for 20 years. That may explain the recent surge in full-family camps, where kids and parents go hiking and sit around the campfire together. The number of these programs registered with the American Camp Association has jumped, from 192 in 1991 to 552 today. Pass the s'mores...
...Acting white’ very well may explain the lack of minority students in elite colleges and universities,” Fryer said...
...same time, the phenomenon is essentially non-existent among black students in primarily black schools, as well as among black students attending private schools. Fryer noted that other factors—such as under-funding, differences in teaching quality, and disparities in parent-teacher interaction—probably explain the differences in overall performance among the nation’s schools...
Rising Sun & Beatle Blood. The most celebrated Push Pin alumnus is Peter Max, 28, a walrus-mustached native of Berlin. Max likes to explain that his flair for star-crossed psychedelic patterns was instilled during his boyhood days in Shanghai, where he watched Buddhist monks painting at a nearby pagoda. Max's designs, exploited through corporate tie-ups with half a dozen companies including General Electric, and emblazoned on posters, cups, plates, decals, and medallions, make him the grooviest thing going. He zaps about Manhattan with his blonde, beret-crowned wife in a decal-covered 1952 Rolls-Royce with...
...community he has led for the past two years, Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced earlier this month plans to step down from his post. The president said his resignation comes in the wake of differences with the school’s Board of Trustees, but declined to explain precisely what those differences entailed...