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...Delaware's state legislature in 1990, Smith, 41, has crusaded to end this small city's unusual urban-suburban busing program, which was imposed by court order in 1978. Educators say the program has helped make Delaware's schools among the nation's most integrated. Smith says it has driven families out of public education and broken the color-blind promise of Brown. "Having grown up here, I just thought it was wrong to break up the local schools and destroy what had been focal points of communities for somebody else's ideal," says the investment banker and father...
...smoke cigarettes and have always been cautious about breathing secondhand smoke, but I never worried too much if I inhaled a little of the stuff in a bar, a restaurant or a building entranceway in cities like New York where indoor-smoking bans have driven smokers onto the sidewalks. So I was surprised when I heard that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had issued a warning advising anyone at risk of heart disease entirely to avoid indoor public spaces where smoking is allowed. According to the CDC, exposure to secondhand smoke for as little as 30 minutes...
West’s departure has driven the department’s course enrollment and concentration numbers south...
...clamor for the head of Donald Rumsfeld may have been cued by revelations of the abuse of military detainees, but it is driven by a deeper grievance - the idea that the Defense Secretary is the personification of a political-military strategy in Iraq that has plunged America into a Middle East quagmire. Even as Secretary Rumsfeld faced his longest day in back-to-back grillings by members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill Friday, the challenge facing tens of thousands of American troops on the ground in Iraq continued to grow, with little sign...
...let’s not get carried away by conspiracy theories. The administration’s opposition to FDCs is surely driven by nobler aims. Testifying before Congress, the President’s Global AIDS Coordinator Randall L. Tobias, asserted that generic AIDS drugs “may well be perfectly safe and perfectly effective...and then again, they may not be. The problem is, there is no process, no principles, no standards in place today, from a regulatory point of view, to make that assurance.” A compelling argument, if only it were true. Tobias?...