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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Karelin and his campaign managers gave one another fits. "They told me to grow hair instead of having my favorite short haircuts. They told me I should not drive sport-utility vehicles--but I don't fit in a regular car. Finally I said, 'Maybe you want me to pierce my ears and nose, paint my cheeks, use lipstick and makeup? Look, the people who vote for me see me every day as I am. I don't have to pretend to make them like...
...stupidest sport of all, despite the teasing the synchers get, may be race walking. If the event were held at the Sydney Mall and restricted to the over-60 set, it might be fun to watch. But instead it's young people jogging and pretending to walk. And that looks really, really stupid. Even Debbi Lawrence, a world-record holder in the grueling 1,500 m, knows her sport is a little weird. "It looks funny, it feels funny, and it wasn't an Olympic sport when I started doing it," she says. Which was probably at 13 months...
...other nickname: "the Snake." He's no Richard Hatch, though. In Wislander's case, the title refers to an uncanny ability to slither through a field of opponents toward the goal. To get a grip on the sport, a popular one in Europe, think soccer using hands instead of feet, with some dribbling thrown in. Adept at both offense and defense, Wislander, 36, is 10 years older than the average player. He leads an equally experienced team of thirtysomethings, many of whom have played together for a decade. The results? Since his debut in 1985, Wislander has scored 956 goals...
Some research has shown that intense coaching, like that at Woodrow Wilson, can lead to short-term spikes in test scores but that later on kids tend to forget much of what they've crammed. "Instead of reading novels, kids are skimming three-paragraph passages for key words," says Linda McNeil, an education professor at Rice University, who this year co-authored a report critical of the Texas exam for Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Texas' lackluster performance on other national exams bolsters her case. Even as TAAS scores have skyrocketed, SAT marks have lagged. According to figures released...
...college-admissions environment for homeschoolers wasn't always so welcoming. As recently as five years ago, most schools were understandably stumped by applications with teacher recommendations written by Mom and Dad, lengthy high school transcripts that listed textbooks instead of courses, and grades that rarely dropped below A's. "When homeschoolers were applying to college in the early '90s, the schools didn't know what to make of them," says Cafi Cohen, 50, who taught her two children at home and wrote Homeschooling: The Teen Years. "Now most colleges have a policy for dealing with them, and some schools...