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...Department of Health and Human Services deemed its own auditing process so flawed that Secretary Donna Shalala did not protest when Congress suspended its ability to collect funds from states that did not meet federal eligibility requirements. State foster-care systems are in such poor shape that case files are still hard copy-bound. Without modern databases, tracking the fate of children remains a maddening paper chase. "These systems should be a national scandal," says Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of Children's Rights Inc. "In virtually every state, there is no accountability." Says Don Keenan, an Atlanta lawyer...
Short on cash and arguably shorter on ideas, the Undergraduate Council adopted a plan last week to collect "eploid" points from the back of discarded Frito-Lay bags at the fly-by lunch counter. Like children compulsively playing Frogger in order to earn the 1,000 ticket laser wand behind the counter at Chuck E. Cheese, council members hope to scrounge enough oily plastic refuse to successfully bid for a new Gateway computer during a 100 day eploid.com web auction...
...before you face the world this morning--before you collect on your bets, hide your face in shame, or tear down the campaign posters that have been obscuring your courtyard view for the past several months--sit back and take a few minutes to take stock of your current situation. Lest you enjoy falling prey to political rhetoric and inflated electoral promises, today's prudence will be tomorrow's payoff...
...change outside the corridors of legislative power. Sometimes, it's a question of checks and balances: If a state legislature wants to change the Constitution, they must present the modification, in the form of a referendum, to the voters for passage. In 24 (mostly western) states, however, voters who collect enough signatures are able to stick their initiative on the ballot - and then campaign like mad to get it passed...
...they do win the computer, they could also collect an extra 45 eploids to buy a Chester Cheetah mouse...