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...their education to pull them out of a familiar environment in search of a better education. So some affluent students leave for the big wealthy school one town over. Because school funding is usually paid out based on enrollment, the failing school loses the resources it would need to clean up its act but keeps the students who most need additional resources...
...these days even good intentions don't add up to much. Chiarelli last month had hoped to drain recruits from al-Sadr's Mahdi militia by hiring 15,000 Sadr City men to clean the district's filth-filled streets. When a truce between coalition forces and al-Sadr broke down, however, the work project collapsed. The state of the district helps explain, Chiarelli says, why "a guy in Sadr City feels there is no hope." There's sewage in his yard, he gets one hour of electricity out of six, and he has no job. "If someone offers...
Like other Floridians, Goldenberg found the onslaught of wind and rain over these past few weeks somewhat surreal. No sooner had residents of the Sunshine State draped tarps over roofs damaged by Charley than Frances came along. And no sooner had they started to clean up after Frances than Ivan loomed. And yet, reflects Goldenberg, the real wonder is that Florida has been spared for so long. "I'm in shock over the damage and the deaths, but I am not surprised," he says...
...semester began, but he knew they had a couple of things in common. All four are in various stages of recovery from substance abuse, and each is a charter member of Recovery House, a new residential program at Case designed to help students with drug and alcohol problems stay clean and sober...
...While in Congress, Sharp focused primarily on energy and environmental policies and chaired the subcommittee on fossil and synthetic fuels. He said he was one of the key leaders in the passage of the last comprehensive energy bill, the Energy and Policy Act of 1992 and the Clean Air Act Amendments...