Word: needfully
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...down your pen. There's no need to address that fan letter you were about to send, or write, or think about writing, as I'm sure one of you must have been. No need, because Robert Goulet has beaten you to it, saying in a letter last October that I am "a sheer delight." He then added, "Can we meet, and can you just let me hang out and listen and observe?" For those of you who have never got a mash note from a Broadway star, let me inform you that Goulet letters are not sent through...
Although it was not my policy to answer fan mail, this policy had never been tested, so I reversed it and wrote Goulet, asking him to be my celebrity pen pal. "I really don't need a pen pal!" he wrote on the back of my first Goulet Christmas card, in which I was introduced, twice, to a pleasantly revealing picture of his wife Vera. "What I need is a buddy! Will you be my buddy???" Underneath, he drew an angry alien. I decided it was best to call. After I listened to some Goulet tunes while on hold, Goulet...
Despite the obvious need for and benefit of PE, the battle to restore it to schools is still very much uphill. "There are only six hours in the average student's day," says NASPE's executive director, Judith Young. "We're often considered an elective, so now we find ourselves competing with technology and language...
Some kids need more than a good PE program. Bernadette Williams and her son Wayne Wilson, an overweight, Boston-area fifth-grader, both credit a leading pediatric obesity clinic--which offered focused personal attention on medical, nutritional and emotional issues--with turning their lives around. "Before I went, I would never have asked basic questions about how to eat and exercise, for fear of seeming stupid," says Bernadette. "But the program offered us some simple solutions...
...shocker: on the nape of Wayne's neck was a dark, velvety area, an abnormality neither Bernadette nor Wayne's grandparents, whom he saw daily, had noticed. The skin condition indicated risk for Type 2 diabetes. While Wayne didn't yet have the disease, advised Ludwig, he would need to be monitored. Wayne was so stunned he was "speechless...