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...fair to blame Jay-Z," Eavis told TIME, instead choosing to blame the weather in typically British fashion, "We've had three years of mud in succession, that was too much to bear, I almost gave up last time." With relentless rain the festival has become a particularly brutal test of endurance, but more fundamentally, Glastonbury has become a victim of its own success...
...Formal podium (minus the faux-presidential seal he test-drove last week), gleaming American flags, reporters seated in tidy rows marked off by velvet ropes...
...have their kids declared defective so that they can get the drug and so that they can also have "accommodations." This is a big deal. It has been going on for five or seven years now. Parents go out of their way and spend fortunes. Neuropsychologists do the testing. It's a huge business. "Accommodations" is not an informal word. It's a formal thing that schools do. Almost all of the accommodations are centered around prolonging the test time the kids have. It's no longer something that gets marked on your record. So colleges don't know...
Sullivan has not spoken publicly about the teen pregnancies since he told TIME earlier this month that several girls repeatedly requested pregnancy tests at the school clinic and that some had reacted to positive test results with high fives and plans for baby showers. Pathways for Children CEO Sue Todd, whose organization runs the school's on-site daycare center, told TIME on June 13 that its social worker had heard of the girls' plan to get pregnant as early as last fall. She noted that some of the girls involved had been identified as being at risk of becoming...
...high school Zhou attends doesn't have a team yet - though the number of schools that do is increasing - so he says the best players from his class come to this playground "all the time" to test themselves against other kids (and the occasional stray foreigner). Zhou smiles a little slyly when asked what his parents think of him spending all his time on the basketball court. After all, at about 5 ft. 9 in. (1.75 m), he's not exactly a Yao Ming-like freak of nature destined for the NBA. "They wonder what I am doing...