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...ways, in fact, home schooling has become a threat to the very notion of public education. In some school districts, so many parents are pulling their children out to teach them at home that the districts are bleeding millions of dollars in per-pupil funding. Aside from money, the drain of families is eroding something more precious: public confidence in the schools...
...this summer when stem-cell researcher Roger Pederson of the University of California, San Francisco--fed up with all the hand-wringing and rulemaking--was seduced overseas by Cambridge University in England. This, of course, may be just an isolated defection rather than the start of a national brain drain. "I'm not packing," quips Thomson, who pronounced himself pleased that the feds would finally make some money available. But in the wake of Bush's decision, other countries may certainly be tempted to bid for more of America's best and brightest. "Overall," says Chris Higgins, director...
...When a British engineer uncovered the stone in 1911 in the southern port of Galle, the 12-cm-thick slab, which was being used as a drain cover, caused a wave of excitement in the archeological world. Here was solid proof of Zheng He's odysseys. Today, the shoulder-high stone lies all but forgotten in a corner of the National Museum in Colombo. In Galle, a replica of the tablet - the town's sole record of Zheng He's passing - sits in the National Maritime Museum alongside pieces of the wrecked ships of later Dutch and Portuguese visitors. Although...
...water, and furniture that typically serves its purposes, along with a plodding washing machine down the hall. Sure, the room also came outfitted with permanently-there hairballs on the randomly-chosen rugs, belching pipes, a well-entrenched lard-like slime colony on the bathroom floor, and a central bathroom drain that sends the smells of several other toilets wafting up near mine. As long as I have flip-flops lashed to my feet, though, it’s quite tolerable. For 20 hours of classroom time per week, I earn 4,000 yuan per month—about...
...also really peaceful. I went down a good eight feet or so, before popping to the surface about four seconds later. My mom was relieved to see that I was alive, and that her son’s Harvard education had not literally been washed down the drain. Another time, a frantic-looking white teenager tried to break into my apartment just as I pulled up to the curb. He didn’t get in, but I was freaked out. There have also been a few tendencies of living alone, in the South, that have stuck...