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    This study is the first to provide evidence that early life exposures may result in effects manifesting themselves in adults. There's no other toxic exposure occurring to young children or mothers that causes such marked increase in mortality in young adults.





    We virtually can lose a school district, which will have a financial impact on a lot of neighboring school districts, which will be a burden on the state,


    Self education can be a bulwark against the boredom of retirement. More importantly, in todays dynamic world, without continuing education one is quickly pushed into the category of the relatively unlearned. Self-education involves thinking, and thinking is hard work.



    I've enjoyed the kids, I've enjoyed the way the school treats athletics. Education also comes first with the administration, ... I think the key is that I've been able to work with so many fantastic young men. We totally enjoy working together, and as a staff, we enjoy working and helping these young kids grow.


    They are very special. I don't know of any college program now with the numbers as they are that could do without them. Occasionally you have a youngster come up and earn a scholarship and really contribute to your football team. They are special.



    In France, the auditions and the plays aren't good, they're too laid back. And I remember in the London school you had a voice teacher, you had an improvisation course, you had to study authors, you had a lot of things. In France, you just act in a lot of scenes, but it's too vague.


    These activities are causing significant emotional distress to the victims. In some, they are resulting in increasing reports of suicide. In many cases, it contributes to depression, school avoidance and myriad other consequences related to emotional abuse.


    You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.



    I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was young, too. I came out of high school when I was just 16, out of college when I was 20.



    It's not the end-all if we don't get them here for junior day, as long as we can get them on campus. The more times you get a young man on campus ... they develop a little bit of a comfort zone with the university.


    When teachers get together they can trade ideas, blow off steam and generally get better connected with the school. As a result, students get better, more enthusiastic teachers.

    He lives 15 minutes from Minute Maid Park, so that's a big advantage. He's a true champion. He took Texas to the College World Series and Houston to the World Series. We made the presentation to him that he can do the same with the Rangers.


    I have never experienced it before, at any level. Not little league, college or high school. Just complete euphoria. You kind of have to take a step back and think, 'Is the game really over' Do the math real quick. It's a tremendous feeling to say the least.

    Often when discussions of teacher salaries are going on, people are comparing themselves to the national average, ... We're suggesting that might not be the best comparison. People in other cities might be paying more for housing and food, and their dollars might not go as far.

    How could you make a university more productive when probably the average faculty member works 80 hours per week We've been doing more with less for years. When we hear that phrase, that's when you're going to hear the four-letter words up and down the hallways.


    There are the friends that understand, and the friends that don't. The friends who don't have truly never had the full experience of post-secondary education. I always found that if you tie yourself down to just the two, work and school, you aren't as productive as you'd like to be. You need to have fun.

    I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.




    My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

    A young man came to Socrates one time and said, 'Mr. Socrates, I have come 1,600 miles to talk to you about wisdom and learning.' He said, 'You are a man of wisdom and learning, and I would like to be a man of wisdom and learning.' Socrates said, 'Come fo.

    It is great to teach real controversies in school. But 'intelligent design' is a false controversy, manufactured by its proponents. Its only 'design' is to confuse students about scientific evidence and methods. It has no standing at all in the scientific community, and the judge recognized this.


    What is important is that the League doesn't pretend to know all we provide the forum for discussion, bring in speakers, encourage local people to talk on various subjects so that they are being educated, and not just by us.

    The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

    Berkeley became a left-wing community as a result of the '60s. The university is about the same as it was before politically. But the city is much more to the left than it was prior to all of this.



    Anytime you beat a D.H. Conley softball team, it means something to your program. Especially a school that is only four years old. For us to come out here and get them twice this year, it's big for our program.

    Virtual schools are something that this charter school bill has certainly laid the groundwork for. It's something that we're certainly open to in terms of a way to expand choices for students and parents.



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