A 2006 study in The Journal of Childhood Nutrition & Management reported that fewer than 5 percent of the nation's elementary schools were scheduling recess before lunch.
President Gerald R. Ford, Nixon's successor, nominated him to be ambassador to Spain, but the Senate did not vote on his appointment before a scheduled recess.
Re "Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at School" (Well, Jan . 26: Scheduling recess before lunch is probably sensible, but the more pressing challenge right now is to make sure that children have enough time for recess, period.
To debate: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened to keep the Senate in session next week, despite a scheduled recess, in order to ensure a vote on a key piece of President Obama's jobs package.
He welcomed the fact that the prime minister had heeded his call to extend the parliamentary session at least 24 hours beyond scheduled recess, and insisted that MPs should be allowed a "proper debate" on Wednesday about developments that have snowballed in the past week and to ensure Cameron addressed "the many unanswered questions that he faces".
In July, when lawmakers extended their legislative session through the first month of the scheduled recess, "Parliament didn't conduct any useful discussions," said Nasar al-Rubaie, a leader of the bloc loyal to the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
I was supposed to talk for over an hour, so I made the executive decision right before the workshop to make sure I didn't need to schedule a "recess", as it were, and, forgetting that I was miked, off I went to the ladies' room.
If it goes past the scheduled March 29 recess, sayonara.
Senator Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat who is the new majority leader, promptly threatened to cancel a scheduled weeklong recess if Republicans blocked action on the legislation, which is a Democratic priority.
Senator Daschle, the majority leader, said again today that he would force the Senate to work through a scheduled weeklong recess for the Fourth of July if it had not completed action on the patients' rights bill before then.
