And so we say farewell to the Decade of Levi Johnston, he who impregnated a vice presidential candidate’s teen daughter, paraded before the nation as a picture of family values, had his affections alienated, did an armpit- bearing fold-out photo session and appeared on enough talk shows to become a household face. That…
It was March 20, 2003. After “shock and awe,” American forces had rolled tanks into Iraq. I drove by a church whose marquee read, “Pray for peace.” I shook my head. Maybe some worshippers inside wanted that. The rest didn’t mean it at all. They wanted to crush perceived enemies. Now it’s December 2009.…
They’re getting it, but they still don’t get it. States are figuring out that it’s not good policy to put so much emphasis on a single standardized test. Not only does it result in miscarriages of assessment, even when students get more than one try. It also warps and crimps…
Make that $1 million a soldier, $1 million a Marine. Or, one sixth of an elementary school. Or one rural fire station. That’s what it will cost to deploy someone to combat in Afghanistan for a year. Time flies. According to White House estimates in the New York Times, three…
What American researchers were finding up in the Rockies over the summer put a new twist on “purple mountains’ majesty.” Try, pink, or tan, or just brown where it should have been white — white as snow. That’s what they were examining: snow with an ominous glaze of dust that had…