With a tennis ball and a yo-yo as props, first-grade teacher Kristy Brooks helped her class understand the correct portion sizes for vegetables.
In one year, the Office of the National Intelligence Director has grown from a staff of zero to 1,500, raising concern about whether it is becoming another clumsy bureaucracy as it tries to avoid the intelligence lapses of 9/11 and Iraq.
Except for a crop of gray hair, the enrollees in Sean Byrne's malpractice course at the University of Richmond Law School look like normal students. They sip Starbucks coffee and tap out notes on their laptop keyboards. And with lumpy hair and bleary eyes, a few looked like they rolled out of bed after a few hours of sleep.
Chatter in the Humvee came to an abrupt halt as the gunner looking through the thermal sight of his machine gun barked out: "Three hotspots at 2 o'clock on the hill."
Asserting that no-shows dampened the atmosphere at many events in Turin, organizers of the 2010 Games in Vancouver on Friday pledged an all-out push to ensure that VIP tickets are used and full houses are the norm four years from now.