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...litter audit, 2,000 pieces of gum dotted one typical stretch of sidewalk, compared with just 200 pieces of other litter. In response, the city is trying out trash cans that let users toss in gum without having to touch the dirty bin. A downtown business district now spends about $37,000 annually to power-wash gum off its sidewalks, and on April 22, the city will be the host of a "20 Minute Makeover" featuring a public gum-removal demonstration...
...Chechen sources who track the war closely tell Time that Maskhadov, 53, last contacted senior guerrilla officers near Shali, a small town 26 km southeast of Grozny, on Feb. 21. Around that time, he was hiding in a village in the high, densely forested hills of the Nozhai Yurt district, another 40 km to the east. As so often in the past, he was living under his enemy's nose. The village was nominally under the control of pro-Russian Chechen forces; Tsentoroy, Kadyrov's home base, is only around 20 km away. Maskhadov was planning to move on toward...
DIED. BART ROSS, 57, out-of-work electrician who admitted in a suicide note found in his minivan that he was responsible for the murders of the mother and husband of U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow two weeks ago; by a self-inflicted gunshot after police pulled him over for a broken taillight; in West Allis, Wis. Lefkow last year dismissed Ross's rambling lawsuit seeking damages from the government for his pain and disfigurement from cancer treatments. His murder confession was corroborated by DNA evidence...
Last Tuesday, a federal appeals court overturned a district court’s decision that would have significantly restricted the presence of teachers from AmeriCorps—a government funded service organization—in religious schools. As it stands, tax dollars will continue to be used to fund volunteer teachers at parochial schools. We strongly believe that this is a misallocation of government resources. The first educational priority of the government ought to be improving the current public school system rather than contributing to non-public programs. As a result, AmeriCorps should be forced to direct its resources solely...
Regardless of any Supreme Court decision, the federal government should take steps to reform AmeriCorps, even beyond the original guidelines set by the federal district court. Monitored teachers in parochial schools will not produce the desired improvements to the national educational system. The way to fix public schools is to give them the support they need, and AmeriCorps should do just that. Religious schools serve an important role in the realm of American education, but programs aimed at improving the educational system should not be aimed at directly improving religious schools...