Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.
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Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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