winter, december through the virus killed 24,000 people on average. last year, 52,000 people died of flu, and resulting pneumonia. the u.s. army records the largest air force operation over fort brag in north carolina, dropping thousands of soldiers from planes is part of a campaign to bring needy toys to kids. it s called operation toy drop. this is the 17th year. soldierses donate toys to get a chance to jump without equipment. it s a popular event but a paratroopers from other countries lead the jump which allows u.s. troops to earn their foreign jump wings. our first soldier, made sure he got an opportunity in a foreign wing. he was here yesterday at 2:45 in the afternoon, and with a sleeping bag and his backpack, and he actually slept outside overnight because he didn t want
excel and then when you add on what we re not saying the term is, but i ll say it, the institutional racism or prejudice. when that becomes at play, the way you ll have to get through that is to play the game the way that the majority do. it s interesting because there was a discussion earlier this year at davos a big gathering of the world s leaders in switzerland and amy chua and larry summers actually got in a tiff about this. he said, look, the a students are professors, the c students are the wealthiest donors. think about it, people on average live a quarter of their lives as children. it s important that they be as happy as possible during those 18 years. he s focusing on creativity, invasion and some things that driven parent may be forgetting when they talk about the violin lessons and all that. jane? when i was doing research for the book, i interviewed 100 executives, not just asians.
ouch. but true, l.z. granderson wrote an opinion piece this weekend. kids may should go to school year round in part because we re trying to compete with the rest of the world where they re pretty serious about education. hi, l.z. what prompted you to write this piece? oh, man, saturd saturday nig live skit is a good place. it really started with my own frustrations as a parent. i have taken my son to four different schools in about two years desperately trying to get him into a school that s going to push him and have him ready to complete with the rest of the world and this is both public as well as private schools and i finally found somewhere and i m lucky because i have the resources and the ability to do that, but everyone in this country doesn t and that really concerns me. in united states on average, you go to school 180 days and we re going to show you in the back where that is with other industrialized countries. you think if there was a longer school year,