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Mary McDonnell Ask Walter Scott your questions at personality@ parade.com

As The Closer comes to an end, the actress, 60, stars in the spin-off Major Crimes (TNT, Aug. 13, 10 p.m. ET).

Will your show pick up where The Closer leaves off? Absolutely! It has its own style,

but we’re still going after the bad guys. It must be bittersweet not working with Kyra Sedgwick anymore. We had won-

derful chemistry and trust. It’s great when you’re working with a woman and you’re both not afraid to oppose each other or find the common ground. Do you have a favorite memory from filming Dances With Wolves? The first day

on set, the sun came up over the prairie and the tepees lit up. I felt transported to another time and place. It was magic. Letters to Walter Scott can be sent to P.O. Box 5001, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.

Q: How many Broadway shows are actually located on Broadway? —Cash Stanley, Macon, Ga.

A: There are over 40

Broadway theaters in Manhattan’s theater district, but only three front the Great White Way: the Palace (Annie), the Marquis (Evita), and the Broadway Theatre (Sister Act: The Musical ).

P Gen. Wesley Clark

Q: I heard that Gen. Wesley Clark is going to be on a reality show. True? —D. Shoultz, Indiana

A: Yes, but no roses

will be given out on

this series! The former NATO commander cohosts Stars Earn Stripes (NBC, Aug. 13, 8 p.m. ET), in which celebs like Laila Ali and Nick Lachey compete in complex missions inspired by real military exercises. “It was important to me that it was a serious and respectful look at the men and women in uniform,”

MY SEWING SKILLS ARE VERY BAD! HER MY GRANDMOTHER MADE ALL HES, MY MOM’S CLOTHES, BUT IT NEVER N TRICKLED DOWN TO ME.”

Clark, 67, says. “I was ars very impressed. The stars really give their all.” Q: What was the largest shark ever to prowl the seas? —Dave L., Waco, Tex.

A: Coming in at 100,000

pounds and 52 feet, the prehistoric megalodon takes the title. Fossils provided a crew with enough evidence to construct a working model of the extinct shark (complete with hydraulic jaws that can

P A reconstructed megalodon

—Heidi Klum, host of Project Runway, which celebrates its 10th season with the book Project Runway: The Show That Changed Fashion

chomp through a car!), an effort documented on Discovery’s Sharkzilla, which premieres during Shark Week (Aug. 13, 9 p.m. ET). Watch an exclusive clip of the show at Parade.com/shark.

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SOUTHPAW SALUTE They’re only 10 percent of the U.S. population, but those who favor their left hand include some high achievers—Barack Obama and Julia Roberts among them (as well as lefty bassist Paul McCartney). Celebrate all things sinistral on Left-Handers Day, Aug. 13; to find lefty rulers, scissors, and more, go to Parade.com/left.

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Scientists say water is required for life on other planets. But alien life forms would be wildly different. Why do we assume they’d need water? —Beth Mack, Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Though water seems ordinary to us, it is composed of a unique combination of properties that are critical to carbon-based life arising in the first place, and the same laws of chemistry and physics apply to all parts of the universe. Biochemical reactions require a fluid to operate in, and everything will dissolve in liquid water to some degree. Enzymes—proteins that speed up chemical reactions sufficiently to make some form of life possible—work only with water. The list of properties goes on and on. The ubiquity of liquid water (not water vapor or ice, which are widely found on other celestial bodies) on Earth is what

has allowed life not merely to exist but to flourish. Noncarbon-based life (in which a fluid such as liquid ammonia or methane is the critical substance) is technically possible, but only in theory. There are other hypothetical forms of biochemistry, but the likelihood of any of them being a reality is extremely slim due to the properties of the elements involved. So the search for liquid water makes sense. It’s by far the most likely road to finding life, which will be wildly different, regardless.

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JUST A FEW years ago, California’s Santa Ana High School looked like it had long outlived its art deco grandeur. The 1935 building was dilapidated, overcrowded, and scarred with grafﬁti. Roofs leaked. Sewage backed up in pipes. Some buildings had no mechanical ventilation. The wiring was in “various levels of dysfunction,” says assistant superintendent Joe Dixon. “Computers would go down. Lighting would go down. In the few places where we had air-conditioning, that would go down.” In one building, makeshift classroom partitions forced teachers to shout over one another’s lessons. Between the noise and the heat, “it was hard to focus on my work,” says Elvis Carranza, 16, an incoming senior at Santa Ana. “It made me not want to go to school at all.” What’s more, 34 portable buildings (i.e., trailers) had turned parts of the campus into a labyrinth—surrounded by chainlink fencing that, in Dixon’s words, “made it look like if you could get in, you were never going to get out.” The sad truth is, Santa Ana High was like thousands of other schools across the United States. Talk of ﬁxing American education tends to focus on teacher retention, test scores, and graduation rates— but we often overlook an equally serious problem: crumbling, anti-

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The average public school in this country is more than 40 years old—and showing its age. Roofs leak, walls are ridden with termites and lead paint, and rooms are chronically overcrowded. PARADE looks at two communities that remade their schools—and the lessons they can teach all of us.

COVER & OPENING PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEVI BROWN

quated facilities facil ilities that are hostile to llearning i and d depressing to the children and teachers who spend many of their waking hours there. An estimated 40 percent of the nation’s 100,000 public schools are in “bad to poor condition,” according to Glen Earthman, Ed.D., a

professor emeritus of educational administration at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Today, the average U.S. public school is over 40 years old. The 21st Century School Fund, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., that advocates for healthy and safe learning envi-

ronments, calculates that it would take $271 billion to bring all of those buildings up to a decent standard. But some communities have taken matters into their own hands to fund the improvements their kids need. Here are two such success stories.

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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BOWLING GREEN, KY./CHRIS PHEBUS

OR PEOPLE in Santa Ana, a city of more than 300,000 located 30 miles south of Los Angeles, the second-rate school facilities were unacceptable. Many residents are immigrants; they often work multiple jobs and share bedrooms in overcrowded apartments. Twenty-eight percent of the city’s children live in poverty. Yet Santa Ana’s parents have ambitious dreams for their kids. “They want us to do better,” says Carranza, one of ﬁve children of a Mexican-born seamstress. His mother, who as a child often walked past the schoolhouse in her village near Santa María del Oro, Jalisco, but never set foot inside, vowed that her own children would have more opportunity. “My mama always told me that the reason she came here,” he says, “was so we could make something of ourselves.” Raising taxes would not be easy in a city that in 2004 was ranked No. 1 for “urban hardship” by the Rockefeller Institute of Government. But in 2008, Santa Ana residents voted two to one for a $200 million bond issue that would improve the city’s 56 public schools. The resulting property-tax increase—less than $100 per year for a modest house—meant collective belt tightening. “We saw parents picking up recyclables just to make ends meet,” says Maria Cante, the high school’s community and family outreach liaison. But relatively few complained, she says—they knew that better schools would give their children a surer shot at higher education. More than $40 million went to overhauling Santa Ana High, one of the district’s neediest schools, an effort that was completed over the

past three years. Among many improvements, the auditorium was renovated seat by seat, with hightech lighting and sound added. (Community groups now use the auditorium and other school facilities year-round.) Workers tore down fences and laid an elegant promenade to help make the

entrance more inviting. Assistant superintendent Dixon secured an additional $41 million from the state, including an overcrowdingrelief grant to help replace the trailers with a two-story classroom building. With more than an acre reclaimed, Santa Ana High once again resembled a true campus.

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lunch in a rose garden, under a canopy of magnolias. Since the modernization, vandalism has virtually ceased and attendance has inched up. Eightynine percent of seniors had passed the California High School Exit Exam by this past March, compared with 82 percent in 2011. Teachers say students have grown more engaged. “If you feel valued, it inspires you to pay more attention and work harder,” Carranza says.

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About nine miles outside of Bowling Green, the newly rebuilt Richardsville Elementary School uses one-quarter the energy of an average school. Rooftop solar panels produce enough power for the school district to sell electricity back to the grid.

Visit that campus today and you’ll see young dancers rehearsing in a sun-drenched studio. You’ll watch as history teacher Jason Hollingshead uses interactive games on his electronic “smart board” to bring the civil rights movement to life. You’ll see 11th graders in a chemistry lab huddled around unscratched countertops with gleaming chrome fixtures. You’ll spy seniors eating

HE PROBLEMS facing America’s school buildings are not always visible ones. Poor ventilation causes asthma, headaches, fatigue, and nausea, making it harder to concentrate and boosting absenteeism. Hot and cold classrooms, external noise, and insufficient light all undermine teaching. “We know that when the heat gets up to 78, 80 degrees, the learning curve drops precipitously,” says Earthman. “When a student can’t see the writing surface, when a student can’t hear the teacher, there is a measurable effect.” Earthman, who has studied the link between infrastructure and student performance since 1993,

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has found that children attending schools in subpar condition score up to 10 percentile points lower on standardized tests, even after controlling for poverty. Outmoded facilities not only inhibit learning but also drive away ial Spec

good teachers, who would rather work in schools where the thermostats function and the air doesn’t sicken them. Of course, there are beautifully designed schools that boast every amenity a student could desire, notes Mary Filardo, director

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of the 21st Century School Fund. But, not surprisingly, they tend to be located in the most afﬂuent communities. Elsewhere—in cities, older suburbs, and rural areas— many schools remain “unhealthy, unsafe, depressing places,” she says. Take a look across the United States and it becomes obvious that when it comes to infrastructure, equality in education remains an unrealized ideal. When it rains in Reading, Pa., “we have classrooms in which A CAMPUS BLOOMS IN SANTA ANA, CALIF. t h e re i s a c t u a l l y a Widespread poverty didn’t waterfall coming over stop the city’s residents from the lights,” says Bryan voting to fund a school facelift. Today, the once cramped, Sanguinito, president of grafﬁti-strewn high school the Reading Education campus is modern and inviting.

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Association. At Youth’s Beneﬁt Elementary School in Fallston, Md., some water fountains are off-limits because of lead in the plumbing. In Beloit, Wis., “we’ve shut down certain wings of buildings [because] of air-quality issues,” says superintendent Steve McNeal. Geronimo Road Elementary School, on Oklahoma’s Fort Sill military base, has termite-ridden walls and ceiling tiles that dangle “by threads of glue,” according to the Center for Public Integrity. The Arizona Republic recently revealed that the school ﬁre alarm at Arizona’s Fredonia High can’t be heard in certain classrooms. And the faulty airconditioning at J.D. Smith Middle School in North

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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

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What was it like to lose to IBM supercomputer Watson on the show last year? I had actually taken artiﬁcialintelligence classes, and suddenly it was like my own tools were turning against me on national TV! I thought Watson was amazing. It felt like being a part of the future. Do you consider yourself very smart? People assume I must be working in a lab somewhere doing equations on a blackboard. But answering trivia questions is not the same as being Stephen Hawking. I’ve just always been a curious guy who likes learning new things.

Ken Jennings The Jeopardy! champ on his lifelong love of trivia and the one question he finds hard to answer

en Jennings, 38, took the game show world by storm in 2004 with his record-breaking 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy! (during which he earned more than $2.5 million), but he hasn’t let fame or fortune go to his head. “I still drive the same 2000 Corolla, which is sort of embarrassing,” he tells Erin Hill. The former computer software engineer, who lives outside Seattle with his wife and their two children, ages 9 and 5, has parlayed his trivia talents into a new career. In addition to writing best-selling books, he has created a special puzzle for PARADE called Kennections, which

launches here. “The pun was not my idea,” he says, “unless you like it—then it was my idea!” PARADE Were you always into trivia? Yeah. One of the ﬁrst books I owned was a kids’ crossword puzzle book. And I loved game shows. I remember crying on the ﬁrst day of kindergarten because I realized I was going to miss Family Feud.

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Do you ﬁnd yourself using Google much? I’m actually obsessed with it. For a trivia guy, the age of Google is an amazing thing. I’m always the ﬁrst one Googling the answer to something. Do people try to stump you with trivia questions? It happens. I was trying to get into a hotel in St. Louis recently and the doorman wouldn’t let me in unless I named all nine U.S. vice presidents who acceded to the presidency. He was very happy because I missed one—Gerald Ford. People want me to get things wrong; that’s what I’ve discovered! How do you like life in the Seattle area? We love it. It’s where I’m from originally. Thanks to Jeopardy!, I have a little savings and can afford a house here. This part of the country is beautiful, and we like to get out and enjoy it, when it’s not drizzling. You’re known as the man with all the answers, but what’s your weakness? I almost never know where my car keys are! I’m sort of absentminded.

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teacher layoffs as a result. That has helped secure bipartisan political support. “When you build highperformance facilities, you save money,” says State Rep. Jim DeCesare, a local Republican (and construction firm executive) who cochairs the Kentucky Green Schools Caucus. For the new Richardson Elementary, school officials asked Louisville architect Kenny Stanfield to design the nation’s first public school to produce more energy than it consumes. “We had to rethink everything,” says Stanfield—from the placement of classrooms to how bathroom sinks turned on. The building that resulted uses a quarter of the energy of an average school. Geothermal pumps, which rely on the earth’s steady underground temperatures, supply the heating and cooling. Solar tubes reduce the need for artificial lights. Sensors detect when a room is occupied (and by how many people) and adjust lighting and ventilation accordingly. The kitchen uses steam convection ovens rather than deep-fat fryers, which saves electricity and results in healthier food. And 2,700 rooftop solar panels produce enough power to allow the district to sell excess energy back to the grid. But what really makes Richardsville Elementar y stand out—beyond the sunlit corridors and cutting-edge technology—is how conservation is woven into the fabric of everyday learning. Geothermal temperature gauges are exposed for children to monitor. So is a pipe that collects rainwater

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When it comes to human papillomavirus (HPV), females are only half the equation. There are 30 to 40 types of HPV that will affect an estimated 75% to 80% of males and females in their lifetime. For most, HPV clears on its own. But, for others who don’t clear certain types, HPV could cause cervical cancer in females and other types of HPV could cause genital warts in both males and females. And there’s no way to predict who will or won’t clear the virus. GARDASIL is the only HPV vaccine that helps protect against 4 types of HPV. In girls and young women ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 2 types of HPV that cause about 75% of cervical cancer cases, and 2 more types that cause 90% of genital warts cases. In boys and young men ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 90% of genital warts cases. GARDASIL may not fully protect everyone, nor will it protect against diseases caused by other HPV types or against diseases not caused by HPV. GARDASIL does not prevent all types of cervical cancer, so it’s important for women to continue routine cervical cancer screenings. GARDASIL does not treat cervical cancer or genital warts. GARDASIL is given as 3 injections over 6 months.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION Anyone who is allergic to the ingredients of GARDASIL, including those severely allergic to yeast, should not receive the vaccine. GARDASIL is not for women who are pregnant. The side effects include pain, swelling, itching, bruising, and redness at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, and fainting. Fainting can happen after getting GARDASIL. Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your child’s health care professional may ask your child to sit or lie down for 15 minutes after he or she gets GARDASIL. Some people who faint might shake or become stiff. This may require evaluation or treatment by your child’s health care professional. Only a doctor or health care professional can decide if GARDASIL is right for your child. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088. Please read the Patient Information on the next page and discuss it with your child’s doctor or health care professional.

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USPPI 9883616 Patient Information about ® GARDASIL (pronounced “gard-Ah-sill”) Generic name: [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant] Read this information with care before getting GARDASIL.1 You (the person getting GARDASIL) will need 3 doses of the vaccine. It is important to read this leaﬂet when you get each dose. This leaﬂet does not take the place of talking with your health care provider about GARDASIL. What is GARDASIL? GARDASIL is a vaccine (injection/shot) that is used for girls and women 9 through 26 years of age to help protect against the following diseases caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV): 𰃊𰁕𰃊 C 𰃊 ervical cancer 𰃊𰁕𰃊 V 𰃊 ulvar and vaginal cancers 𰁕 Anal cancer 𰃊𰁕𰃊 G 𰃊 enital warts 𰃊𰁕𰃊 P 𰃊 recancerous cervical, vaginal, vulvar, and anal lesions GARDASIL is used for boys and men 9 through 26 years of age to help protect against the following diseases caused by HPV: 𰁕 Anal cancer 𰁕 Genital warts 𰁕 Precancerous anal lesions The diseases listed above have many causes, and GARDASIL only protects against diseases caused by certain kinds of HPV (called Type 6, Type 11, Type 16, and Type 18). Most of the time, these 4 types of HPV are responsible for the diseases listed above. GARDASIL cannot protect you from a disease that is caused by other types of HPV, other viruses, or bacteria. GARDASIL does not treat HPV infection. You cannot get HPV or any of the above diseases from GARDASIL. What important information about GARDASIL should I know? 𰃊𰁕𰃊 Y 𰃊 ou should continue to get routine cervical cancer screening. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 G 𰃊 ARDASIL may not fully protect everyone who gets the vaccine. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 G 𰃊 ARDASIL will not protect against HPV types that you already have. Who should not get GARDASIL? You should not get GARDASIL if you have, or have had: 𰃊𰁕𰃊 a 𰃊 n allergic reaction after getting a dose of GARDASIL. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 a 𰃊 severe allergic reaction to yeast, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, polysorbate 80. What should I tell my health care provider before getting GARDASIL? Tell your health care provider if you: 𰃊𰁕𰃊 a 𰃊 re pregnant or planning to get pregnant. GARDASIL is not recommended for use in pregnant women. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 h 𰃊 ave immune problems, like HIV infection, cancer, or you take medicines that affect your immune system. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 h 𰃊 ave a fever over 100°F (37.8°C). 𰃊𰁕𰃊 h 𰃊 ad an allergic reaction to another dose of GARDASIL. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 t𰃊ake any medicines, even those you can buy over the counter. Your health care provider will help decide if you should get the vaccine.

Can other vaccines and medications be given at the same time as GARDASIL? GARDASIL can be given at the same time as RECOMBIVAX HB®1 [hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant)] or Menactra [Meningococcal (Groups A, C, Y and W-135) Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine] and Adacel [Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed (Tdap)]. What are the possible side effects of GARDASIL? The most common side effects with GARDASIL are: 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊pain, swelling, itching, bruising, and redness at the injection site 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊headache 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊fever 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊nausea 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊dizziness 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊vomiting 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊fainting There was no increase in side effects when GARDASIL was given at the same time as RECOMBIVAX HB [hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant)]. There was more injection-site swelling at the injection site for GARDASIL when GARDASIL was given at the same time as Menactra [Meningococcal (Groups A, C, Y and W-135) Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine] and Adacel [Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed (Tdap)]. Tell your health care provider if you have any of the following problems because these may be signs of an allergic reaction: 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊difﬁculty breathing 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊wheezing (bronchospasm) 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊hives 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊rash Tell your health care provider if you have: 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊swollen glands (neck, armpit, or groin) 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊joint pain 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊unusual tiredness, weakness, or confusion 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊chills 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊generally feeling unwell 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊leg pain 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊shortness of breath 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊chest pain 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊aching muscles 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊muscle weakness 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊seizure 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊bad stomach ache 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊bleeding or bruising more easily than normal 𰁕 skin infection Contact your health care provider right away if you get any symptoms that concern you, even several months after getting the vaccine.

How is GARDASIL given? GARDASIL is a shot that is usually given in the arm muscle. You will need 3 shots given on the following schedule: 𰃊𰁕𰃊 D 𰃊 ose 1: at a date you and your health care provider choose. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 D 𰃊 ose 2: 2 months after Dose 1. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 D 𰃊 ose 3: 6 months after Dose 1.

For a more complete list of side effects, ask your health care provider.

Fainting can happen after getting GARDASIL. Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your health care provider may ask you to sit or lie down for 15 minutes after you get GARDASIL. Some people who faint might shake or become stiff. This may require evaluation or treatment by your health care provider.

This leaflet is a summary of information about GARDASIL. If you would like more information, please talk to your health care provider or visit www.gardasil.com.

Make sure that you get all 3 doses on time so that you get the best protection. If you miss a dose, talk to your health care provider.

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What are the ingredients in GARDASIL? The ingredients are proteins of HPV Types 6, 11, 16, and 18, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, yeast protein, sodium chloride, L-histidine, polysorbate 80, sodium borate, and water for injection.

Manufactured and Distributed by: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, USA

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