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...states would be free to come up with their own definition of the yearly progress schools must demonstrate. Although either plan seems to provide an ample cushion, a growing coalition of teachers, education officials and even some White House staffers is now arguing that the current legislation would deem far too many schools failures - on the order of 100 percent in some areas...
...sense, the fascination with the war is easy to explain. Veterans still alive are growing old; you don't need to endorse that cloying American conceit that they made up the "greatest generation" to deem them worthy of honor. Moreover, World War II continues to provide a certain pattern to our international arrangements. Consider the Soviet Union. The sacrifices it made and the victories it won during the war gave the Soviets a place at the top table of nations; Moscow's acquisition of nuclear weapons came later. It was the memory of war that shaped Japan's 1947 constitution...
...Despite these minor setbacks, most council members deem Gusmorino's first term a triumph and predict great things for his next--and he'll have help...
...technologies like brighter lightbulbs and improved insulation offer the chance to reduce energy use without sacrificing convenience. And these gains could be significant: If the U.S. government (the country’s largest energy consumer) cut its own power consumption by one-fifth, as the energy department scientists deem it could do at a cost of $5 billion, it could save $1 billion in energy per year and pay off the initial investment in only five years...
...students at Harvard frequently do not get their health information from sources that they themselves consider believable. While television falls at the very bottom of believability, about a third of students get their health information from TV-more than the 28.9 percent of students receiving information from what students deem the most believable source, college health educators...