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This demand for more class time has driven some educators a step further. More than 3,000 schools have retooled their calendars, sprinkling several shorter but "optional" breaks throughout the year, adding a month or two to the normal school year or even holding class on Saturdays. "Students today simply need more time to be successful," says Judith Johnson, a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Education. "The 180-day school year is obsolete...
...conflict. The potential for conflict may have expanded now that the core differences between the two sides have been aired but not resolved. But that potential also functions to keep them talking to each other. After all, they found their way to Oslo without Washington's help, driven only by the realization that conflict led nowhere. Even without a final agreement, then, both sides have no realistic alternative but to keep talking...
...violence; there has been too much pain and too much sorrow. It would not be responsible for us to sit back and not try to seize this moment." That obsession has meant a lot of traveling. He has flown abroad hundreds of times in search of peace. He has driven the region's embassies nuts, preferring to travel light and shunning the press, allowing no reporters to follow him and working without an advance schedule for his movements. A talented college basketball player at UCLA--and still a devoted Bruins fan today--Ross plays Middle East diplomacy like...
...amid the despair, at least two countries have managed to address these problems. Led by President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda started a public AIDS-education program in 1990 that has driven the rate of new infections down dramatically in some places. And Senegal, with its own awareness program, has also cut taxes on condoms and got religious leaders to participate in AIDS education. As a result, Senegal's infection rate is a mere 1 in 50 adults, one of the lowest in Africa...
While Hillary's childhood is usually described as solidly middle class, Oppenheimer offers a grim portrait. Hugh Rodham may have driven a Cadillac and owned a home in a white-bread Chicago suburb, he writes, but he was a cheapskate who refused to take care of the place, and his drapery business was a one-man shop with walls stained brown from chewing-tobacco juice. Hillary has her brother Tony to thank for many of these details, since Tony told Oppenheimer about a cousin, Oscar Dowdy, who became the source for them. Dowdy also says that Hillary's mother...