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— Palm Harbor teacher keeps students on the move<\/a>.<\/p>\n

6th grader Kurt Shuster says he thinks Mr. Mackenzie is pretty cool.<\/p>\n

“He makes me feel like I am special because he comes up with these names for me, like the Shuster-nator or something really funny that I would like to hear.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Gene Witt Elementary’s afternoon science club is a blas<\/a>t!<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There were a lot of hands on gooey things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tom Brugos said.<\/p>\n

Brugos, 39, is working on the idea of a science lab this summer for elementary students across the county.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It just gives them a chance to explore their love for science and do experiments we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have time to do in class,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brugos said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whenever you do hands-on experiments, it is more than reading it in a book. If you recall, you tend to remember the demonstrations from school more than the articles you read.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Bill Foster started a media frenzy about a year ago when he wrote a letter to the Pinellas County School Board in favor of exposing students to creationism. The letter linked Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler. Now he wants to be a mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— Darwin Day: Come for the Sensible Scientific Debate, Stay for the Bumper Stickers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— Intelligent design to be topic at Vatican meeting, but only as a cultural phenomenon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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