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Looks as if Florida has done it again. Just when the race to replace President George W. Bush's 2000-election confidant Katherine Harris in the 13th District had swung to Republican Vern Buchanan--by a mere 369 votes--his Democratic challenger, Christine Jennings, last week filed a lawsuit claiming that voting machines had failed to register 18,000 ballots. But Jennings isn't the only candidate for whom concession is taboo. Here's a look at some of this year's most bizarre and hotly contested elections around the world...
...hands-free cell phone while driving? Think again. Using either type of phone while trying to drive a car is roughly equivalent to driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08%, which is high enough to get you arrested in any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for driving under the influence. Folks who use hands-free cell phones in simulation trials also exhibited slower reaction times and took longer to hit the brakes than drivers who weren't otherwise distracted. Data from real-life driving tests show that cell-phone use rivals drowsy driving...
...school buses in much the same manner, with 1 out of 7 of these kids traveling an hour or more each way. What's more, most of their parents--Brown included --are happy with the system. So much to-ing and fro-ing is a result of the school district's generally popular racial guidelines, which aim to keep the percentage of African Americans in any one school from falling below 15% or rising above 50%. The district as a whole is about one-third black...
...families wind up with their first or second choice. Even if some don't get what they ask for, race is never the sole factor in how assignments are made. "We look at choices first, we look at siblings, we look at capacity," says Pat Todd, the district's student-assignment director. "Race is way down the list...
Cambridge Public School Committee members argued over how to allocate unspent funds in the district’s operating budget at a meeting last night, just four months into this fiscal year. In 2004-2005, the district established the School Debt Stabilization Fund in order to offset the unexpected costs of future projects. Because of past budget allocations and interest income, the district expects to have a budget surplus for the current fiscal year, which began July 1. Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn presented members with a list of 10 items—including computer upgrades, professional development training for teachers...