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...county, next to a roadside restaurant where the waitresses and cooks have all come to stand by the road, their outfits buffeted by the rotor's downdraft. The President and his entourage are hustled into waiting Ford Econoline vans and then driven to Shi To National Park, where they attend a ceremony honoring efforts to rebuild after the September 1999 earthquake. Under a stained, blue-red-and-white canopy, the President listens as Nantou's deputy mayor explains how they had to bore through rocks to reopen the highway. A hundred locals sit on white plastic chairs, gawking...
Passed by the council on April 29, the bill seeks to provide $40 in vouchers to all 500 College students whose parents contribute less than $2,000 a year to their educational expenses. These vouchers may be used to help students attend activities such as formals and performances that would otherwise present them with too large a financial burden...
...students who attend CAL-Dows High School, situated just down the hall, are a bunch worth emulating. The older students juggle calculus and physiology classes with school trips to Spain and statewide jazz-band competitions. Some make time every day to tutor first-graders in math or reading. Among last year's graduates, 98% went on to college...
...parents of truants into family court. And once kids were in her grasp, Stiglbauer never let them go. She "invited" struggling students to intense early-morning, after-school and summer drill sessions. But the bonus classes became so popular that close to half of Hand's students now attend school virtually year-round--half of those by choice...
Lois Bean worries about the same thing. An eighth-grade teacher in the upscale Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, she says her problem students have one thing in common: detached parents. Bean's efforts to get their mothers and fathers to attend back-to-school night, help out with research papers or even return her phone calls are often in vain. Those same parents are usually no-shows even at the Little League games that her family frequents. "We end up giving the same kids, who live in beautiful homes, a ride home every night," she says. "These aren...