| British PM Aims For "World Class" Education For UK
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set out his vision for education in a speech at the University of Greenwich this morning. The PM said that the UK's ambition should be a "world-class" education system, settling no more for "second best". Gordon Brown's Complete Speech Speech on Education My school motto was 'I will try my utmost'. The motto of the school in the next-door town was 'rise to the light'. .
Chef's Night In: At home, Maggie Pond's special is chicken
If an enlightened administration at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley hadn't ditched the stodgy, traditional home economics courses, Maggie Pond might have never become the top-notch chef she is now. Cooking had not been on the front burner for Pond as a teenager, but when the boring home economics curriculum was sent to the dustbin, to be replaced by a program called Feast in which students were taught real cooking, her interest was suddenly awakened. Several times a week, the students prepared meals for faculty and for themselves. Young Maggie soon decided that cooking and feeding people appealed to her on many levels. It still does. As executive chef of Cesar wine bar and restaurant on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto and its sister restaurant, which opened in 2006 on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, she fills her days with planning, experimenting and preparing small plates that fit one of the preferred contemporary dining styles without ever shouting "trendy." But at home, Pond often opts for comfort food like a fragrant chicken fricassee (see recipe): "It's delicious, it keeps well and you can make it with stuff you have on hand anyway," she explains.
New technology allows joint replacement on younger patients
Joint replacement surgery once was reserved for older patients suffering from knee or hip pain usually related to arthritis.
But the face of the joint replacement patient is changing, skewing younger than ever before, and the phenomenon is changing the field, according to orthopedic surgery experts.
Since joint replacement's inception in the 1970s, surgeons traditionally have been reluctant to replace joints in people younger than 70 because the devices lasted no more than 10 years. The younger the patient, the more revision surgeries would be necessary as the replacements wore out.
But now, people in their early 60s, 50s and even 40s are finding relief from the debilitating pain of arthritis with improved replacement devices, new surgical procedures and techniques, making longer lasting, more functional replacements a reality, surgeons said.
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