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Intro | Dance | Theater | Music For some, art and sport, like oil and water, don't mix. "Maybe it goes back to the schoolyard," says Paul Costantoura, author of the recent Australia Council report Australians and the Arts. "There were sporting types and there were non-sporting types." But Costantoura uncovered a surprising degree of overlap. Of those surveyed, 78% agreed that "people can enjoy the arts in the same way that they enjoy sport." While followers of Shakespeare or Shirvington might beg to differ, both arenas offer audiences a primal ritual, says Costantoura: "It's the vicarious struggle...
...layperson, it appears to me that the relative response has far exceeded the need," said councilor Jim Braude, who sponsored an order requesting a report on whether the spraying was needed...
...recent report on the spraying, the city's public health department said Resmethrin is "not considered dangerous to humans or pets at the very low levels being applied" but that "certain precautions are recommended to protect people with respiratory problems...
...many arguments - as long as the cash is flowing into teachers' salaries or textbook purchases, and not into the black hole of high-tech educational tools. That's the word from the Alliance for Childhood, a consortium of early development and education experts, which issued a report Tuesday that sketches a speculative link between increasingly wired classrooms and the rising incidence of childhood obesity and social detachment...
...This report could send some members of congressional appropriations committees running back for their notes - to date, schools have received almost $4 billion in federal aid earmarked for computers and Internet access. No one should panic just yet, though: Conflicting studies evaluating the benefits of computers are published often. And until we reach something resembling a consensus, we'll still be a very long way from turning our G-3s into fishbowls...