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...Tongba is slowly gaining in popularity outside eastern Nepal. It's now available in Putali Sadak district in Kathmandu. You can also find it in Nepalese restaurants around Hong Kong's notorious Temple Street. Other tongba devotees as far away as Sydney solicit brewing tips via the Internet...
While the university is certainly to blame for not addressing these issues directly (they certainly knew what was happening as Boulder County District Attorney Mary Keenan met with school officials in 1997 and 2001, after the reported rapes), they are also to blame for never once questioning Barnett until he stuck his foot in his mouth...
...that the scores of immigrant kids in their first year at a U.S. school no longer must be counted. The No Child law also allows some of Franklin's learning-disabled kids to take the test with special accommodations like extra time. But it permits only 1% of the district's kids to take an alternate test--even though 14% are special ed. Children at the upper margin may also suffer. Activities for the gifted and talented have not been cut, but high-achieving kids aren't grouped in accelerated clusters in regular classes anymore. They are spread...
...South End, a worn section of Muscatine where the smell wafts over from a factory that makes Heinz purple, green and "mystery" ketchup. Most of the parents work in local factories or service jobs. "We had a long-term problem here," says Jane Evans, curriculum director for the district. "The school's culture was, 'Our kids are different. They...
...belong to one of the Caribbean?s most threadbare police forces. ?This is not the way things were supposed to be once we were rid of Aristide,? said businessman Jean Robert, 57, as he helped clean up the police station looted by mobs in the capital?s Petion Ville district. ?I could go back and live in the U.S., but I?m staying, because we?ve got to change the way things are done here...