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America is failing its most gifted kids
Time magazine looks in depth at why "no child left behind" and special education that ignores the special needs of gifted children are causing schools and the U.S. in general to squander, or even damage, the potential of its brightest citizens. Everyone knows education money is scarce; do you think gifted education should be more of a priority?
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The Four Yorkshiremen, for your goofing-off pleasure.
The original Four Yorkshiremen sketch was performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Marty Feldman on the "At Last the 1948 Show" in 1967, here if you're really curious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656KldeywUs
The most famous version is the Monty Python take, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982:
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This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club.
Bold the ones you've read.
Strike-out the ones you hated
Italicize those you started but never finished
Put an asterisk* beside the ones you loved.
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien **
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Three random, offbeat movies I watched recently and wanted to recommend, while I'm thinking about it.
* The Matador
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