Health & Science

It is often said that what first seems like a hardship, can have good consequences later on.   Jeff Eisenberg, for one, would have little trouble applying this concept to something as disgusting and annoying as bedbugs.

 Who would have thought that a bug no bigger than a poppy seed could cause such a stir in homes, apartments, schools, cruise ships, dorms --  even , ironically enough, the offices of the city’s Health Department? People in the Bay area and all over the city have been worried about going to school, the office, and even the movies because they do not want a bed bug crawling over them.   It’s a national problem, but New York State has had the highest rate of infestation. In the city, the City Council established an advisory board to focus on what many have called an epidemic.   This past summer bed bugs were found at some of the most popular movie theaters in Manhattan, and locally at the UA Movies at Sheepshead Bay. The theaters are now bug-free, officials said.   Contrary to popular conception, the tiny critters do not…

By DOMINIQUE CARSON Should intelligence be measured only by scores on IQ, SAT, or other standardized tests? No, says Harvard professor Howard Gardner – educators should think of intelligence as multi-faceted. Gardner developed his theory of “multiple intelligence”  in 1983 because he felt that schools  limit students to linguistic (word-smart) and logical-mathematical intelligence. He believes teachers and administrators  should devote attention to the way students are smart in individual  ways -- in the arts, architecture, music, dance, fashion design, entrepreneurship, or other talents. "All children learn better when they are given the chance to learn at their own pace and given different ways to gain knowledge, not all children get it through memory or textbooks,” said art teacher Laura Monel at Public School 190 in East New York. Gardner developed eight different intelligences to promote children potential in schools. The eight intelligences are linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal,…