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At Einstein High, guidance counselor Joseph Monte has been a teen angel for almost 50 years Nov 1st 2012, 14:03 It is early morning at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington. Classroom doors stand darkened and locked; the swarm of teachers has yet to descend. School buses, with their groaning diesel engines and strobe lights, are not due to queue for another 30 minutes. Read full article >> Halloween's over, but the junk food deluge isn't Nov 1st 2012, 11:00 Today may not be the best day for us to feel more anxiety about how much junk food our kids eat. My daughters could take a bath in all the loot they scored last night. Or, it may be the most apt time. As many of us are witnessing the ill-effects of unfettered access to candy: the poor sleep, mood swings, sluggishness. Not many school kids are going to be in top learning shape today. Read full article >> Letitia Baldrige, the first famous social secretary, was a 'godmother' to White House successors Nov 1st 2012, 09:00 Despite her career as an etiquette expert, Letitia Baldrige wasn't too terribly stuffy when it came to protocol. But one thing drove her crazy: clinking wine glasses. Capricia Marshall, a White House social secretary for the Clintons, learned that lesson early on at a party with her predecessors. "When we raised our glasses to toast, she held up a hand and said, 'Ladies, ladies. We do not clink our glasses to toast. We approach.' " Read full article >> Holocaust survivor tailors an American success story Oct 31st 2012, 23:58 NEW YORK — Like many men, Martin Greenfield ordered a new suit when his life was about to change: He placed his order just after he was liberated from a concentration camp. In 1945, he left Buchenwald and arrived at a German warehouse, where Allied soldiers let Greenfield pilfer four cuts of English wool. The freed captive carried the fabric to a Prague tailor, who made a suit for Greenfield from two of the cuts, with the other two as payment. Read full article >>

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