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(Chardon) -- Two boys are being hailed as heroes for commandeering their school bus when the driver slumped over at the wheel and became unaware of where he was. A bus that had dropped off students at the Auburn Career Center was on its way to Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin high school near Chardon. Jeff Eippert, one of the students on the bus, noticed that the bus was going nearly 60 miles an hour, and was weaving in and out of traffic. Jeff thought something was really wrong when the bus went past their school without slowing down. He went to...

When second- and third-graders chanted “Assassinate Obama” on a Madison School District bus recently, district spokeswoman Janet Goodliffe explained that most of the children didn’t understand what the words mean. According to The Associated Press, she attributed the chant to the community’s being “highly conservative” and overwhelmingly for John McCain. I admire Janet Goodliffe as a preschool education leader. But as a teacher, she offered tortured excuses instead of capitalizing on a great teaching opportunity. This is not an isolated incident. As a former teacher and Idaho Falls school volunteer, Luella Hendrickson, wrote on this page Thursday, after the election,...

Designed to create controversyCourts, school boards and public opinion have made evolution a hot topic By Bruce Lieberman UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 16, 2006 UC San Diego biologist Ajit Varki doesn't want to debate evolution. Doing that, he said, would make people think there's something to debate. For him, rejecting evolution is like trying to understand chemistry without the Periodic Table of the Elements or arguing that Earth is flat. “Everybody can have their own view of faith and origins and so on,” Varki said. “But when it comes to science, you've got to deal with facts.” Although researchers such...

Hunters, ranchers can offer facts, science in their defensepublished May 5, 2003By Billy Buchanan On Mondays, I enjoy reading the weekly Op/Ed section. It's filled with interesting views on hot topics from guest columnists, myself included sometimes. This time however, I was not cheerful about the way my name was mentioned. Nancy Shinn made her second deliberate attack: "Hunters, ranchers: Do humans have the right to kill and eat other species?" Her second strike was written with the same emotional and belittling assertions as her first. I am an animal lover, hunter, cattleman and apparently Shinn's nemesis, whom I have...