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Education is an important issue which requires much attention by this administration, but the Bush plan should adopt constructive--not punitive--reforms...
...Given Europe's familiarity with the disease, why didn't governments vaccinate their livestock against it? The answer is that they did, and were successful in keeping the disease in check-until 1990, when the E.U. decided to adopt the British approach to prevention: immediate slaughter of animals thought to be infected. Why? British vets say vaccines can actually make testing for disease more difficult, since it is impossible to tell whether an animal's antibodies come from the vaccine or the virus. And even vaccinated animals can harbor the live virus for up to two years. Says David Tyson...
...Appropriately, the story begins in California. In the two decades after World War II, the College Board struggled to build the reputation of the SAT, which was first used experimentally in 1926. The board desperately wanted the University of California, then the biggest university in the nation, to fully adopt the test. In 1962, as Nicholas Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided to end its then limited use of the test: "If they drop the SAT, we will lose a great deal more...
...Monday the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Missouri's challenge to a lower court's ruling that the state cannot keep the KKK from participating in an Adopt-a-Highway program and posting signs along their "adopted" stretch of highway. The white supremacy group, represented by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against Missouri in 1994, when the state's department of transportation denied their request to join the clean-up program, citing the KKK's racist membership policy and history of "unlawful violence." Since then, the case has bounced in and out of state and district appeals...
...Some observers cast a cynical eye at the idea of KKK-sponsored civic activism. This Adopt-a-Highway challenge was a dare of sorts, says UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, a constitutional law and First Amendment expert. "Nobody wants to publicize the KKK's agenda, and so the group has to find a way to make news. And with this case, the KKK gets to style itself as a defender of First Amendment rights against a government that, in the mind of the KKK, has been taken over by all these anti-white people," Volokh says...