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...biannual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, president Sandra Feldman called for the universal enrollment in pre-school of every child aged three or older - regardless of whether their parents are able to pay for the classes. The AFT plan would charge parents on a sliding scale, asking wealthier parents to spend a bit more in order to finance part of another, needier child?s tuition. Feldman puts the estimated tab of such a program at $41 billion, the bulk of which would continue to be bankrolled by state and federal funds...
...among its ostensible supporters. While some, including President Bush, advocate tougher standards for the program, others are concerned that current enrollment guidelines effectively cut out children of the working poor, who cannot afford private preschool, but are too well-off to meet Head Start?s federal poverty guidelines. The AFT pre-school plan would address both those concerns by enforcing vigorous standards for teachers and eliminating financial requirements for enrollees...
...Japanese aircraft carriers and battleships were idiosyncratic, unique, individually laid down in Yokosuka and Shikoku shipyards and fitted with quirky characteristics. Superstructures set too far aft. Smokestacks emanating from the ship's hull. These were the vessels that captured my imagination. For one thing, these ships were all at the bottom of the Pacific, heroically overwhelmed, it seemed to me, by the sheer numbers of nondescript American ships. And the Tamiya Waterline models, with their jeweler's attention to detail and scholar's obsessive historical accuracy, somehow evoked the mystery of these lost ships. The kits didn't bring...
...cameras shows that the blast tore open the entire double-hulled forward section of the 505-ft. vessel, an area the size of a school gymnasium. Seawater would have slammed into the torpedo and cruise-missile compartments, instantly killing the men on duty there. In the control room just aft of the shattered weapons compartments, Lyachin, the five staff officers and the dozen or so officers and petty officers manning the ship's controls would have had no time to react before the combined power of the blast and seawater tore through, destroying the gleaming arrays of switches, computers...
...floor of the ballroom tilts now and again--fore to aft, sometimes port to starboard. But the steps of the dancers remain steady. A diminutive 92-year-old dowager, resplendent in her pink ball gown, sparkling jewelry and a blond bouffant hairdo topped with a black velveteen bow, smiles on the arm of her young officer escort as he leads her through the traditional paces of the Gay Gordons. They are surrounded by a swirl of tuxedoes, taffeta and tiaras--a time warp on the water aboard the grandest dame of them all, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth...