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...based correspondence course that both her mother and sister completed. For $985, it provides textbooks, online tests and teacher support via phone and e-mail. The rush to cash in on dropouts has made such correspondence courses and "virtual high schools" the Wild West of secondary education, a multimillion-dollar industry that can offer a valuable second chance but has suffered at times from poor oversight and a dizzying array of self-styled accrediting institutions, many of which aren't recognized by mainstream colleges...
...save their buddies. But now my administrator says that the guy down the block will do the job if I don't persuade that patient to come to me. So what do I offer a patient who, we are told, really doesn't need me? A multi-million dollar lobby. The Boss saw what was really behind that glitzy facade, and he saw what lay ahead as well. And of all the things that take the joy out of practicing medicine, that is perhaps the most insidious...
...Koenig, founder of Duke’s Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality, said the study overlooked the importance of sincerity of prayers. “God isn’t like a Coke machine, where you put in 50 cents and get one size and put in one dollar and get another size,” he said, adding that the study was a waste of money...
...author of the book “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture,” said in a phone interview from his home in San Rafael, Calif., yesterday that some young Web entrepreneurs who turned down multimillion-dollar offers early on reaped rewards in the long...
...political enemies, Democrats or Republicans. It is outrageous. It has had a direct impact on the future of this state and the future of the Houston-Galveston area. When you have the Majority Leader that passed the sales-tax deductibility in Texas, that got Texas 92 cents for every dollar of highway money [sent to Washington], which is $788 million more a year than what they'd been doing, when he has been able to fully fund NASA against all comers, including the Senate. And I could go on and on and on. It has a real impact...