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Two excerpts from a great article in The American Conservative by Christina Hoff Summers about self-esteem in the classroom (no link available): > There is in fact no evidence that immigrant children or their parents would feel insulted or diminished by reading texts praising the nation's democratic tradition

The Discovery Channel has come up with a list of the 100 greatest Americans, according to a viewer poll. For the complete list, go to this link [http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/05/the_100_greates.html], which also includes a list of notables who didn't make the

The primordial need to be able to throttle a student rears its repressed head. Link [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4483688/detail.html#121]. Excerpt: > A teacher at Sidecreek Elementary School in Aurora was placed on leave Thursday after the mother of a fifth grader reported that the teacher

America continues its obsession with polls. Link [http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-polling-cell-phones,0,7365847.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines] . Excerpt: > The rapid growth in cell-phone only households is pressuring public opinion researchers to adapt their surveying methods, which are based heavily on telephone interviews of people with traditional

We've mentioned earlier that the weekends tend to be slow: many bloggers don't blog, and more mainstream websites slash their production. Our traffic also drops, though the drop isn't nearly as severe as it was back in March; perhaps readers have become aware that

IBM has "officially announced that it will adopt FireFox, recommending all 300,000 employees to download and use it." Link [http://news.softpedia.com/news/IBM-sides-with-FireFox-1917.shtml]. Firefox is a free web browser that provides an alternative to MS's Explorer. So what's the big

Steven D. Greydanus at decentfilms.com gives approval to the Star Wars series, including the one coming out this Thursday. Link [http://www.decentfilms.com/commentary/starwars.html]. Concluding paragraphs: > Ultimately, what the Star Wars films offer is not a coherent philosophy of life, morality, or spirituality. Rather, they

An inmate on Indiana's death row has a sister who needs a liver transplant. The inmate wants to donate his. And now there's a scramble: to see if health insurance will cover it, to see if the governor will grant a temporary stay to allow the

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Spice Girl Geri Halliwell says she has a huge collection of "toys." But she avoids "buying the toys herself because she feels 'genetically split' after inheriting her late father's sex drive and her mother's Catholic cautiousness." Link [http://www.femalefirst.