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...district's student residency requirements - and if so, how they will get there after the Sept. 2 protest. And some educators caution that keeping kids out of class, for one day or longer, could ultimately do more harm than good. Since school funding is in part tied to student attendance rates, Chicago Public Schools estimates it will lose $110 a day for each student who doesn't attend class. And the protest could also affect next year's funding, which Illinois pegs to the number of children in school during the three months with the highest attendance rates, with September...
...Also of concern from the Sallie Mae/Gallup poll is the finding that some 40% of families didn't factor cost into the decision about which school their undergraduate should attend, which is astounding given the price difference among schools. Tuition at a private, four-year college averages about $24,000 a year, while a good public institution may be as little as $10,000, even for out-of-state enrollees, according to the College Board, the nonprofit that administers the SAT. "We eliminate homes and cars all the time due to price, but then don't go through the same...
...What's more, while star Jamaican runners used to go abroad to train and study, most now opt to stay home, further endearing them to their countrymen. Bolt and Fraser, for example, eschewed lucrative U.S. college scholarship opportunities to attend the University of Technology in Kingston. Jamaican sports officials insist having the athletes on native soil has also led to a far lower incidence of the kind of doping scandals that have bedeviled Jamaican-born sprinters in the past. Bolt even made a point earlier this summer of letting it be known he'd sworn off partying to better prepare...
...which they are being conducted emerged Thursday when Zimbabwean security forces briefly detained Tsvangirai, his deputy - Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) general secretary Tendai Biti - and a third M.D.C. official. The three were held at Harare airport and, after their passports were confiscated, prevented from leaving the country to attend a weekend summit of southern African leaders in Johannesburg, South Africa. Biti said the incident raised questions about the Mugabe regime's true intentions. "This is a reflection of their insincerity," he told reporters at the airport. "They want to talk to us. Yet they behave like hooligans...
...their doctors prescribe. But the truth is that doctors don't always prescribe the best or cheapest treatment. Actually, they don't always know what that is, given that they lack the time to keep up with the latest drug journal articles, pore over research on the Web or attend medical conferences. One of doctors' most convenient sources of new-drug information is, therefore, also the most biased: the chipper, gift-laden pharmaceutical salespeople who come to doctors' offices bearing free samples, prescribing tips and copies of the latest study that shows how great their new drug is. They also...