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...ANTITERRORISM FUNDING 31% Portion of the $16 billion in post-9/11 federal security grants to U.S. states and the District of Columbia that hasn't been spent. Almost $5 billion remains stalled in government coffers $2.2 billion Amount of new spending requested by the Bush Administration for antiterrorism programs in its 2008 budget
...Percentage of the $16 billion in post-9/11 security grants to states and the District of Columbia that hasn't been spent. Almost $5 billion remains stalled in federal coffers...
...city's overall diversity will keep them that way. "Sixty percent of students are minority, and 80 percent of them want to go to the top five schools," says the parents' lawyer, Harry Korrell. "So you're going to get a heavy minority representation no matter what." The district, though, argues that segregation in the city's neighborhoods will soon be reflected in the high schools now that race isn't a factor in assigning students. Whether or not the district's right, that's what happened in many other cities, leaving schools to find alternatives for maintaining diversity...
...correlate closely with race, socio-economic status can be a bust. San Francisco stopped using race to assign students in 2001 and adopted a plan based in large part on economic factors like a students' eligibility for housing assistance or the free-meals program. Though the city's school district says it is "racially and culturally diverse" overall, it admits that its individual schools "have severely resegregated...
...creative heads in rock music. David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Brian Eno found inspiration here for the most interesting chapters of their musical careers. And there are some in the audience tonight who vividly recall the days when Bowie and Iggy shared a flat in the arty West Berlin district of Schoeneberg. Even for many of those too young to have been on the scene, it was these sounds of the 1970s that defined their image of Berlin. "Lou Reed's 'Berlin' record definitely added to the romantic notion I had of the city," says Anthony, a 36-year...