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Dictionary-Based Vocabulary Testing and the Word-as-Shape Fallacy - An Open Letter to the New York Times Robert Oliphant - In perpetuating the word-as-shape fallacy your "500 billion words" article (12/17/10) misguidedly t undercuts your own linguistically sophisticated daily crossword puzzle, the completion of which in less than 10 minutes invariably signals a reassuring absence of Alzheimer's dementia. So by way of a balanced discussion, I urge you to share the following statement with your readers 5 myths about school food Janet Poppendieck | Maybe kids will eat vegetables. When President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act on Monday, he joked that if he hadn't been able to get the bill passed he would have been "sleeping on the couch." America's Shanghai Surprise Bill Costello, M.Ed - American students are lagging significantly behind their peers from several countries in Europe and Asia according to new results from a key international assessment. They are the furthest behind students from the Chinese city of Shanghai, who received the top international test scores in math, science, and reading.