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Just Pay For It. If lav-love is not your idea of a good time but you're still intent on becoming a mile-higher, there's always Mile High Atlanta, a charter-plane company that takes couples on sex flights. For $379, you can hire a tiny Piper propeller plane outfitted with a mattress, a bottle of champagne and an extremely discreet pilot. The ride lasts an hour and, not that you'll notice, flies you over the gloriously rural west Georgia countryside...
...sure, some cases have been clearly inappropriate - such as the Florida middle school instructor who was suspended Oct. 2 after writing a racial slur about Obama on his blackboard. Other situations, however, are more ambiguous. Consider the class of first graders at a San Francisco charter school, which recently had a school-sponsored outing to attend the wedding of their lesbian teacher. Three weeks from now, California voters will vote on Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and proponents of that measure decry the field trip as overtly political. "This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young...
...years, six-figure starting salaries have been the exclusive privilege of bankers, doctors, and lawyers. But now, a New York City charter school called The Equity Project promises to bring teachers into the $100,000-plus-club as well. The Equity Project, which is located in the historically disadvantaged and largely Hispanic neighborhood of Washington Heights, seeks to fundamentally change the paradigm of American public education: By offering its teachers base salaries of $125,000, the school hopes to bring the best and brightest educators into its classrooms—a logical response to the large body of empirical research...
...achievement gap to a simple dichotomy between the “Overachievers” and the “Unengaged.” And two of the three schools that Wagner cites as successful examples of teaching our children the survival skills he says they need are charter schools. It is hard to imagine how the lessons that work in schools in which each class has no more than 100 students could be applied in a large, urban school that has over 400 students in each grade. But, as tends to be the case with large social problems that lack...
...complicate Zardari's relationship with the army, which has been a lot more strident in its opposition to such operations than the government has been. This has created pressure on Zardari to amplify his own opposition to U.S. attacks, which he this week termed a "violation of the U.N. charter." The Pakistani leader urged restraint from the U.S. during his first meeting with President Bush, on Tuesday in New York. According to leading Pakistani analysts, Zardari's prospects depend on him shaking off the growing perception at home that he is merely acting on Washington's orders. The Marriott bombing...