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...Home School Report Card." A look at the growing ranks of children educated at home. Sept...
...holiday shoppers get ready for the first post-Sept. 11 Christmas, they will soon be noticing that the traditional red-and-green Christmas cards are sharing the stores with a slew of new ones sporting patriotic red, white and blue. Hallmark, which had only a few days after Sept. 11 to turn out a new patriotic line, reports that those cards are the best-selling ones on its website. And despite fears that anthrax would dissuade people from spreading cheer through the mail this year, Hallmark says its card sales are up 5% from the same period last year...
Russian President Putin may not have won an agreement with President Bush on missile defense, but he did get something else--besides kind words--during last week's summit: an unprecedented intelligence briefing from CIA chief George Tenet. Presidential chief of staff Andrew Card says the U.S. appreciates Russia's cooperation in the war against terror, and the briefing was intended partly "to acknowledge and thank President Putin." But trust has its limits. Left out of the briefing were specific details of Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. That seems strange, since the U.S. is unhappy that Russia...
Saudi Arabia, the chief holdout, has at least pledged to start issuing ID cards to women. Today the only legal evidence of a Saudi woman's existence is the appearance of her name on her husband's card. If she gets divorced, her name goes on her father's card; if he's dead, her brother's; and if she has no brother, the card of her closest male relative, even if she scarcely knows him. Manar, 35, a Riyadh translator, thinks ID cards for women will make a real difference. "As long as you are a follower, you cannot...
...Dinks, which sentimental boomers are apparently trying to pass on to their kids. And there's always this year's batch of "must-own" DVDs of didn't-need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores, and the American urge to lavish gifts upon one's family, friends and of course oneself will do the rest. Maybe they'll need a miracle...