Shining Stars

Some smaller, more child-oriented schools have shown that the DBDs can virtually disappear. There is no better evidence for how the environment powerfully shapes the behavior that results in children being psychi-atrically diagnosed. 

In a July 14, 1993, New York Times front-page report titled Is Small Better Educators Now Say Yes for High School, Susan Chira reported, 

Students in schools limited to about 400 students have fewer behavior problems, better attendance and graduation rates, and sometimes higher grades and scores. At a time when more children have less support from their families, students in small schools can form close relationships with teachers. 

Chira (1993) suggests that teachers in these schools have the opportunity for building bonds that are particularly vital during the troubled years of adolescence. Even students from troubled homes respond to smaller, more caring schools. They are shining stars you thought were dull, said a New York City teacher. If you re under a lot of pressure and stress, they help you through that, said a student. They won t put you down or put you on hold (Chira, 1993). 

Children respond so quickly to improvements in the way that adults relate to them that most children can be helped without being seen by a mental health consultant or therapist. Instead, the therapist can consult with the parents, teachers, and other concerned adults. In my clinical practice, I often see children only once or twice with the parents. After that, I work with the parents by themselves to help them to develop more consistent, rational methods of disciplining the child, along with unconditional love and attention to educational needs. If the parents are willing and able to learn new ways of approaching their children s needs, obvious positive changes in the children become apparent within a few days and weeks. 

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I do not find it doubted [he says], that there are four elements, the highest being fire, whence the eyes of so many shining stars, next that spirit which the Greeks and we call by the same name, air, that vital substance permeating all things and mixed in all, by the force of which, the earth and the fourth element, water, are balanced in the middle of space. 21... 

We have heard that in industry we celebrate diversity. But industry is not yet the shining star it should be. There are a lot of faults, and we can still make many improvements. 

Now this would be a different book, not the last good drug company, but the struggles of a once-shining star. 

Lots of models, lots of shining stars, lots of days. The models and the stars go away, but the days don t. —Ascribed to B. Hope... 

Regarding this formula mischief, if [Berthelot s] book creates a backlash I will be very pleased. I myself have had my fill of this mischief.. . . The principle which you and I use to construct formulas (you and I, and by the grace of God others as well) is correct and will remain so. . . [W]e and science will calmly continue on our way between the mischief of those who play with constitutional formulas and the indolence of those who deny formulas, toward the shining star of a fundamental syntheses beckoning from afar. ... 

Reward and recognition is a vitally necessary component of any plan to improve operational safety and reduce driver turnover. Done correctly, a driver/employee recognition system becomes the shining star of your entire safety and driver retention effort. 

Wliile stars shine from the fusion of plain hydrogen, that reaction is unsuitable for nse on the earth. In substellar sizes the energy released leaves the reacting region as electromagnetic radiation much too quickly. 

At 2000 K there is sufficient energy to make the H2 molecules dissociate, breaking the chemical bond the core density is of order 1026 m-3 and the total diameter of the star is of order 200 AU or about the size of the entire solar system. The temperature rise increases the molecular dissociation, promoting electrons within the hydrogen atoms until ionisation occurs. Finally, at 106 K the bare protons are colliding with sufficient energy to induce nuclear fusion processes and the protostar develops a solar wind. The solar wind constitutes outbursts of material that shake off the dust jacket and the star begins to shine. 

T-Tauri stars Stars early in their evolution life cycle that throw off a dust jacket in the form of polar jets and begin to shine. 

Suddenly tired, you make your way to the purple-draped bed and stretch out upon it. The Grail gleams, the stars shine overhead, the scarlet priestess sings the ancient songs, and you fall asleep. You dream a dream—a vision within a vision. Remember. 

One of the great achievements that future generations will associate with the twentieth century is the understanding of the mechanism that makes the Sun shine. Indeed, it is the same mechanism that operates in all stars. It is thus established that the stars are not eternal. With this comes the realisation that we ourselves are but the dust and ashes of stars and that we have borrowed the elements that make us up from these celestial workings. 

Seeing is not just a question of adjusting our eyes to the solar spectrum. We live close to a star called the Sun and at night, when it is hidden, we see only stars similar to our daytime star. This does not mean that darkness is absence. The chilled, the scorching and the non-thermal shine invisibly. The eye is in fact doubly solar, for it is made from the same atoms as our star, and it is the persistence and predominance of the Sun s light that have fashioned our sense of sight. The atmosphere is transparent to solar radiation. The maximal sensitivity... 

Light sifted by dust takes on an infrared tinge. The ancient chilled background radiation of the Universe, the glittering clouds that float between the stars, plying such complex chemistry in their dark confines, cold sfars, dwarf or aborted, that shine frostily all these things can be spied upon by their infrared or milhmetre radiation. 

For each star that shines, there are a certain number that remain hidden, masked by a veil of dust. Observing the Universe in submillimetre waves, where the heated dust shines at its brightest, it has been possible to show that in the young Universe, stars were born at a rate about five times greater than was suggested by observations in the visible. 

Dust grains act like stones in the desert. They accumulate heat and restore it to the medium in the form of infrared radiation. They are intermediaries between light from stars and interstellar gas, for they absorb stellar photons in a most efficient manner. This is why these clouds appear so dark in photographs. In fact, they shine in the infrared. The dust strewn across the Galaxy trades the big money of stellar light for the small change of the infrared. 

Reflection nebulas are visually much more beautiful. These are clouds of gas and dust that shine by light borrowed from nearby stars, just as the planets shine by the reflected light of the Sun. Starlight is scattered by dust grains floating... 

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