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Leaving home in Rocky River, Ohio, was hard for Daniel Scherry. His mother and two sisters were in tears when his Marine Corps recruiter, Staff Sergeant Eric Evans, went to pick him up for basic training in the spring of 2006. Soon Scherry was crying too. "His sisters were his world," says Evans. Their names, Kacie and Lauren, were tattooed on the inside of his arms. To console Scherry, Evans told the young Marine the recruiter would be there for the sisters while he was away...
...over there," she remembers telling him. Genevie idolized his mother. He listed her as his "biggest inspiration" in his 2003 senior yearbook. But joining the military was one thing he had to do on his own, with or without his mother's blessing. Before he left for basic training, Patricia remembers telling him, "I support...
...gulf states, though, are aiming higher. On May 20, the Chinese government said that it was paying $3 billion for just less than 10% of the Blackstone Group, the U.S.'s leading private-equity firm, which owns everything from Freescale Semiconductor to Michaels Stores. The next day, Saudi Basic Industries Corp. said it was buying General Electric's plastics division--the storied operation based in Pittsfield, Mass., where former GE boss Jack Welch earned his stripes--for $11.6 billion...
...heart and soul of No Child Left Behind are its requirements for annual testing and proof that students of every stripe are making adequate yearly progress. AYP is as basic to U.S. education as ABC, but most thoughtful educators object to the way it's measured. One of the biggest problems: there are too many ways to fail, even when a school is moving in the right direction...
...this does bring into stark relief a basic question that haunts the music industry: Can consumers be trusted to control their own music without pirating the record labels and the artists they produce right into the ground? The answer is yes. People have been buying and selling music for years without DRM, in a form you may have heard of called the compact disc. CDs have never had DRM attached. Off the record, most executives--on the technology side at least--will tell you that DRM is a dinosaur that's waiting for the asteroid to hit. It's just...