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...theft is the fastest-growing white-collar crime in America, according to the FBI. True, you may be liable for only $50 on a fraudulent credit-card purchase, but restoring your good name can cost a lot more in terms of time and expense. Enter companies like Travelers and Chubb, which now offer identity-theft insurance. The policies cover a broad range of costs--from legal fees to lost wages. To learn more about how to protect yourself from fraud, visit www.consumer.gov...
...featured programs are booked up for 1997, all promise to inspire. (The subscribed programs' sponsors may have other offerings, and there's always next summer.) We've invited a variety of notables to share their memories of seminal childhood summers--and asked education analyst John E. Chubb to reconsider the Jeffersonian belief in "the inestimable value of the intellectual pleasures," meaning more school time for kids in summer. Happy vacation...
...John E. Chubb is director of curriculum for the Edison Project and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he authored numerous studies on student achievement...
...There's a weariness with the persistence of the urban problem," says John Chubb, co-author of Politics, Markets & America's Schools, "a feeling that if an alternative really is out there, can it be so terrible to give it a try?" Like passengers on the Titanic who have just heard about a lifeboat raffle, low-income parents are the most excited about vouchers. Average household income for families participating in Cleveland's school-choice program is $6,597. When 6,500 students applied for the 2,000 grants, the city had to distribute them through a lottery. Sister Theresine...
Freid said most of the missing funds were repaid by the Chubb insurance company thanks to a policy she had taken out three years earlier. The District Attorney's office and the insurance agency were both actively pursuing Surette's case, according to Freid...