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By Ciara McGrath

School science laboratories seem to always be designed by accountants. They are generally poorly laid out and ill-equipped to serve their purpose.I have taught in many of these disasters and have designed other labs that have been a pleasure to teach in.

It would be nice if price was not a constraining factor in all school building design, but it is.The best way to approach the design of your lab is from the stand-point of what you need, then pare it down if the total cost is over-budget.

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DEFINITION: (noun) A central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression. SYNONYMS: pep pill, upper, speed. USAGE: The doctor prescribed amphetamines to stimulate the narcoleptic patient's nervous system so that he would be less likely to unexpectedly fall asleep.

Hardy was an English writer and poet of the naturalist movement. His characters are for the most part of the poorer rural classes and are sympathetically and often humorously portrayed. Their lives are ruled not only by nature, but also by rigid Victorian social conventions, and the physical harshness of the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape that they occupy echoes that of an indifferent universe. Why did Hardy give up writing novels altogether at the height of his success?

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is the elder daughter and successor of George VI. At age 18, she was made a State Counsellor, a confidante of the King. During WWII, she trained as a second lieutenant in the women's services. On Nov. 20, 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, duke of Edinburgh. They were in Kenya when the King died, and Elizabeth succeeded to the throne. Her coronation, on June 2, 1953, was the first to be televised. Where did the coronation take place?

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Pavlov was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov is recognized today for first describing the phenomenon now known as conditioning in his experiments with dogs. How did he conduct these experiments, and what did they show?

A new study shows that bipolar teens misinterpret facial expressions to be hostile more often than their healthy counterparts. This could explain why bipolar teens tend to be more aggressive and irritable and struggle with social problems. Researchers also discovered that the left amygdala, which registers fear in the brain, reacted more in children with bipolar disorder than those without when they were asked to rate hostility in neutral facial expressions.