Flier from NCTQ, in this morning’s e-mail: It's hard to imagine: a teacher candidate who, after studying just three credit hours' worth of physics and answering most of the physics questions on a ...

The classroom is a wonderland for young boys. There are model sharks, skeletons, and a live tarantula. There’s a “destruction table” cluttered with electronic gadgets in various states of disrepair.

It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades. He says there ...