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...short, the second semester of the last year of high school is a kind of waiting room for the next stage of life. But over the past few years, high schools and colleges have begun experimenting with ways to keep students more engaged during the period between homecoming weekend and the senior prom. "Senior year in the U.S. has been based on the 19th century premise that 80% of students will go back to the farm after graduation," says Stanford University education professor Michael Kirst, who co-wrote the 2004 book From High School to College. "In small ways, people...
TRANSPORTATION HUBS A key to attracting businesses to the area is a rebuilt commuter-rail station and a new complex that connects 13 of the city's subway routes to the site. Preliminary work has begun on both projects...
...good managers. Among the criteria: "They mustn't be lazy or steal." Emerging consumer credit is helping to fuel sales. Credit cards such as Visa or American Express have only taken off in Russia in the past three years, and few Russians yet own one. But stores have increasingly begun offering loan terms to customers. Offering credit was pioneered by M.Video, an electronics and electrical equipment chain, and has quickly been adopted by others. M.Video now has 62 stores in 16 different regions of Russia and Mikhail Kuchment, the commercial director, says the plan is to open 20 more...
Luckily for Hannah, her voice and thoughts are being heard. Since learning to type, she has begun to speak a few words reliably - "yes," "no" and the key word "I" - to express her desires. All this seems miraculous to her parents. "I was told to give up and get on with my life," says her mother. Now she and her husband are thinking about saving for college...
...aspirations of their own significant minority Kurdish populations, have tightened the noose around the Iraqi Kurds. As Turkey's civil war against Kurdish separatist guerrillas - an independent radical group known as the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK - has escalated since the beginning of the year, the Turkish army has begun massing at the Iraqi border. Last week, Turkish commandos began crossing the border to pursue PKK fighters who take refuge in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Iranian Army on Monday shelled Kurdish villages in the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq, an area inhabited by PKK guerillas and used as a launching...