fMr. Oswald places the telescope on the desk in front of us. "This," he says proudly, "Is a Broadhurst. It was the most powerful telescope for backyard veiwing in its day."
Which was when?" Lizzy asks.
The nineteen thirties," he replies. "Isn't it a beauty? On a clear night, you could see the whole entire solar system with this one."
Unable to stop myself, I blurt out, "My very energetic mother just served us nine pizzas."
Lizzy gawks at me like I have two heads. "He's lost it; he's finally lost it. I knew this day would come."
Mr. Ozwald chuckles. "Jeremy has just given us a mnemonic device for remembering the order of the planets.


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This is our home tonight. Anywhere with you is my home.
WENDY HIGGINS
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education ...
WENDY KOPP
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to ...
WENDY KOPP
Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
WENDY KOPP
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not ...
WENDY KOPP
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
WENDY MAGRUDER
I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away ...
WENDY ROSE
People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
WENDY LIEBMAN
To meet this deadline, my marching orders are to seek to conclude this comprehensive agreement by th...
WENDY CUTLER
These issues have basically been untouched in this area before. Why is this area the exception? We n...
WENDY VASQUEZ
They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to ...
WENDY LONG
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big ...
WENDY WASSERSTEIN
We're not at the stage yet where investors are panic-stricken by any stretch of the imagination. Con...
WENDY STRUB
Career counselors on campus don't necessarily give graduates the tools they need to build rewarding ...
WENDY ADAMS
It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of...
WENDY HALL
It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of...
WENDY HALL
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question...
WENDY KAMINER
When we'd look at our budget for the last couple years, we were unable to pay our operating services...
WENDY KRAJEWSKI
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperi...
WENDY KOPP
I'm numb from the toes of my left foot to about the top of my rib cage, and then I do get some visio...
WENDY BOOKER
My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money
WENDY LIEBMAN
Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent gr...
WENDY KOPP
Most of the kids weren't afraid and knew all about proper oral hygiene. The staff also did a great j...
WENDY LOMBARDI
Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas a...
WENDY DAVIS
The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and...
WENDY LONG
You have to be more aggressive, for sure. I also think a three-day tournament kind of lends itself t...
WENDY WARD
The Tommy brand has lost a bit of its luster.
WENDY LIEBMANN
The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, t...
WENDY LONG
It would be like a shooting outside Macy's. It was so public, most of the victims were bystanders an...
WENDY CUKIER
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in c...
WENDY KOPP
Money is available to but people are not applying. We urge people who are eligible to apply now and ...
WENDY PARKS
I fell in love with her; she was just adorable,
WENDY WHITE
In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad...
WENDY KRAMER
In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad...
WENDY KRAMER
There's no question that the charge would be first-degree premeditated murder. The grand jury could ...
WENDY MURPHY
People want a celebrity designer they trust and an esthetic to tell them what color and couch goes w...
WENDY LIEBMANN
Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling peopl...
WENDY BENCHLEY
[Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Pos...
WENDY SMITH
People only sign up if they're willing to be found. We don't want to invade anyone's privacy. We wan...
WENDY KRAMER
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, t...
WENDY KOPP
We seemed to be in a hurry in the first half, especially in trying to get the ball inside to Dominiq...
WENDY PRICE
It's certainly part of our cultural heritage, ... We've been predicting for a while that by 2015, 60...
WENDY EVANS
We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. And certainly, sp...
WENDY LAWRENCE
Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on wom...
WENDY WRIGHT
We're disturbed by ... lack of concern on the medical safety,
WENDY WRIGHT
Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry,
WENDY WRIGHT
When a drug is easily available, it is a public health hazard to women.
WENDY WRIGHT
In any scenario in which a woman would be taking the morning-after pill she needs medical interventi...
WENDY WRIGHT
Making the morning-after pill over the counter would only benefit those that profit from its increas...
WENDY WRIGHT
It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. Mak...
WENDY WRIGHT
It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. A 1...
WENDY WRIGHT
We can't deprive the paying members of their golf, even for an ex-president.
WENDY ALLEY
Steve will never put her in front of a camera. He's adamant that she not appear on camera anywhere.
WENDY PRICE
In general we have to be very attentive to the fact that hunting rifles and shotguns in the wrong ha...
WENDY CUKIER
If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more cl...
WENDY WRIGHT
For those employees who want to remain with Radio Shack, (the company) will do its best to transfer ...
WENDY DOMINGUEZ
They're just complementary in our minds. We want to be in all the places where our customers are. We...
WENDY CLARK
She raised the kids and took care of things while Dewey was gone. She had to be a wonderful woman to...
WENDY MILLER