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Sydney will be her fourth Olympics, but the first in which she is a favorite. At Seoul in 1988, as a shy 19-year-old, she was 13th. "When I think back, I was soooo naive," she laughs. In 1992 she improved and finished seventh...
...pencils down. The questions, which percolated through e-mail chains over the summer, are not meant to prepare you for the hot seat on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Rather, they're drawn from an oral exam given to seventh- and eighth-graders in Saline County, Kansas, back in 1895. Students who mastered the five-hour exercise gained admission to high school. And if enough of the kids performed well overall in their studies, their teachers could win a pay raise of 25? a week...
...Well it wouldn't necessarily be inappropriate but it would sound really pompous. I'd hate to call it that. But it was sort of structured that way, consciously, especially the whole seventh part that is set in 1893. I set it that way on purpose; as carefully I could make it, I tried to pace that part of the story. It's told in terms of a memory, whereas every thing that is told in the present day is told in terms of a theatrical present-day experience with all the clunkiness. Whereas in a memory you edit things...
Espelage focused on students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade, when the problem is most acute. "As kids transition into middle school, they are negotiating new settings, establishing power within peer groups," she says. In this confusing period, denigration of others often proves a successful route to prominence. In boys this generally manifests itself through taunting or threats of violence, while girls are more apt to spread rumors or inflict social ostracism. The study shows bullying tapering off as kids advance into the eighth grade...
...bacterium with two extra bases in its DNA and five unnatural amino acids in its proteins. "The question is," says Schultz, "Why are there only four bases in our DNA and only 20 amino acids in our proteins? What would life look like if God had worked on the seventh day and made a few more?" If anyone can answer that question, Schultz...