There’s a national holiday that’s not on the calendar. Yet every, year the date is engraved in the memories of tens of thousands of American and Canadian citizens. It’s a holiday that legions of people from all walks of life Nan and prepare for weeks in advance, and the memories of which are savored and [...]
Remember those old wooden bass plugs in your tackle box? Collectors will pay you thousands and thousands for them at auction Fifty or so men in Wrangler jeans and button-down shirts inspect a variety of old fishing tackle that will be auctioned by Lang’s Sporting Collectibles. The crowd looks like it would argue a 50-cent [...]
Matty youth in conflict arc reaching out to the Internet for znrtiiat support and guidance. This is a hrief alert about this new risk confronting children loith suicidal ideations. In most countries, mortality from suicide is the second or third leading cause of teenage deaths. The incidence of suicide attempts peaks during mid-adolescence. Evidence supporting [...]
SOONER OR LATER EVERY HUNTER CATCHES BEER HUNTING’S MOST BREADED DISEASE My old man suffers the fever bad. HE GETS A VARIETY AS INTENSE AND RECURRENT AS MALARIA: the shakes, the sweats, the flushing, the gape of confusion wrapped in TENSION that tautens to unbridled ANXIETY and a severing of control that triggers panic, explodes [...]
The best work I have seen from my students came as a result of a two-month-long research project into child labor. The work my students created during this social justice research project showed passion, creativity, and academic rigor. Keeping justice at the center of my curriculum did more than heighten students’ awareness of social issues; [...]
By Emma L. Willey One day at a garage sale, I rummaged through some junk and spotted an old paring knife. “Wait a minute,” I muttered to myself. “This knife looks vaguely familiar.” I picked if up, turned it over and over in my hand. Where had I seen this knife before? It had a [...]
IN OUR STORY, which is purely a product of the imagination, he sometimes said he didn’t have a clue why he became a detective. He abhorred violence. Death scared him. He liked solving problems, and he had a particular tnethod, general semantics, that he used. He felt that, in a way. he personified certain general [...]
Why do we still structure doctoral training around tenure-track positions in universities? The PhD can lead to so many other places. Dreams deferred and hopes dashed make for heart-wrenching personal narratives, as we see weekly in the Chronicle of Higher Education. No other trade publication reveals such pathos in the industry it watches. Stories abound [...]
A seventh grade writing project takes on a deeper meaning, thanks to a piece of local history that time forgot On June 2, 1943, the first of 6,000 German prisoners of war arrived by train in Aliceville, AL. They marched several miles to the prison camp that had been hurriedly built on the outskirts of [...]
Phil Gainous is in a sticky spot. The board of education in Montgomery County, Md., decided this was the year when sugary sodas and non-nutritious snacks must disappear from high school vending machines, replaced by healthier options. Gainous isn’t against promoting healthy habits. But as the veteran principal of Montgomery Blair High School, the county’s [...]