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...state law called Act 60, which is aimed at correcting the disparities in school spending between wealthy towns and less fortunate ones. At issue are the most basic values parents teach children: Be fair. Share. Play nice. According to Vermont's supreme court, obeying the rules of the sandbox meant replacing the state's old school-funding system, in which local property taxes generally paid for local education, because doing things that way had led to terrific schools in affluent communities (especially those graced with ski slopes or resort lakes) and threadbare facilities for the have-nots. Under...
Somebody pissed in the sexual sandbox...
...couldn't tell you a single thing I learned inside my first-grade classroom. But I can tell you that no one wants to play with someone who hogs all the sand in the sandbox. That it takes two to see-saw. And that if you win by cheating, you're still a loser...
Back to the Sandbox...
Happily, this was a problem NASA had foreseen. In J.P.L.'s so-called sandbox, a roomful of Mars-like rock and soil with a mock-up lander and rover, the engineers had rehearsed a fairly straightforward maneuver that called for Pathfinder to raise one petal, tilting the entire craft 45[degrees], retract the deflated bag further and then lower the petal. The signal to execute the maneuver was sent up shortly before Earth set over the Martian horizon, breaking the communications link until dawn; just before the connection was actually severed, a picture came back confirming that the command...