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...high-tech firms now riding the crest of their industry's boom simultaneously drain gifted teachers away from their jobs, but these firms will find themselves in a most difficult position in the years ahead when less and less brain-power is available because nobody was there to develop it. Such actions as Congress' proposed bill and the Ed School's retraining program are welcome efforts in an otherwise bleak situation, but they represent only a beginning. Major strides in filling high school staffs with competent math and science teachers will only occur when these teaches receive higher salaries...
More important was ensuring the temple's structural integrity, continually threatened by Java's heavy rains. Under the leaning balustrades went reinforced concrete slabs. To prevent water from undermining the hill upon which Borobudur sits, the engineers installed hidden drain pipes to replace the gargoyle spouts provided by the ancients. Finally, gravel, tar, epoxy and lead were layered under the stones to protect them and the foundation from seepage. Says Indonesian Archaeologist Soekmono, 60, known among his countrymen as the Guardian of Borobudur: "The structure is engineered to last another 1,000 years...
Such a string of commendable positions deserves its growing support. But some German politicians fear that the U.S. government, at the invitation of the ruling conservative German party, may annouson a new, superficial peace proposal right before March 6 to drain support from opponents like the Greens. Such a move, if successful, would be a major setback for a fascinating political development--a party that has captured the imagination of millions and injected a needed bit of sanity into the nuclear debate...
...Sometimes you can't drain the swamp, because the alligators are always biting you," he said...
Hudson's was a macabre version of its old self this past December and January. The store's management had announced five months before that the store would close sometimes at the beginning of the year because Detroit's economic tumble had made it a tremendous financial drain. For several years. Hudson's had already pared down significantly; during the holiday months, it withered away. Consolidating merchandise on seven floors, store wide sales initially offered 20 percent discounts and eventually doubled. Hudson's witnessed a dramatic upsurge of business in its waning weeks, as shoppers capitalized on bargains and paid...