Being physically active is just as important to health as eating right. Children need 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous active play every day to grow up to a healthy weight. If this sounds like a lot, consider that 8-to 18-year-olds devote an average of 7.5 hours watching TV and movies, using computers and cell phones, and playing cell phones.
According to the dictionary, civics is "the branch of political science that deals with civic affairs and the rights and duties of citizens"-in short, it is about citizenship, a bunch of citizens in the same boat. Civics encompasses our connectedness as members first of local communities and then of larger political groupings, such as particular towns, states, and nations.
By COLLEEN SLEVINAssociated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Students, parents and teachers in suburban Denver are vowing to continue demonstrating against a school board's new conservative majority after it refused to back off plans to review Advanced Placement U.S. history courses for what some see as anti-American content.
Since 1983, MCA has had a rich involvement with arts and cultural organizations of all types and sizes throughout the country including theatres, muse...