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...Indeed, recent studies indicate that small schools with specialized curriculums have much lower dropout rates and higher college-admission rates than traditional education factories. "The cost per pupil is a bit higher," says Patty Stonesifer of the Gates Foundation, which has become a major supporter of the small-school movement. "But the cost per graduate is much lower-and that really should be our goal...
Plimpton exhibited his Lampoon-cultivated humor when, as an April Fools’ joke in 1985, he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated profiling Sidd Finch, a fictitious Harvard dropout who learned to throw a 168-mile-per-hour fastball while studying yoga at a Tibetan monastery...
...Stockholm suburb last Tuesday night. Police say Svensson, although not formally charged, is a suspect in the Sept. 10 stabbing death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with a knife. Police used closed-circuit television pictures in the store to identify Svensson. The lead investigator on the case, Leif Jennekvist, said Svensson is "not unlike...
Wells worked for much of the last dozen years of his life as a pizza-delivery man in and around Erie, a blue-collar town of 100,000 midway between Cleveland, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y. One of seven children, Wells was a high school dropout. He was a withdrawn but likable man, friends say, a guy who wore a T shirt and jeans nearly every day. He often passed the time between deliveries thumbing through newspapers. "I don't believe he had the mentality to build a bomb," says Mark Tupek, who hired Wells to deliver pies at a local...
...high school dropout, Eric spent a great deal of time in the Nantahala National Forest and, according to a CNN report, learned to hunt and fish, studied herbal medicine and fashioned himself as an army survivalist. For cash, he allegedly became a backwoods pot farmer and enjoyed the fruits of his work, getting stoned and watching Cheech & Chong movies. He joined the Army in 1987 and was discharged 18 months later; investigators think he may have learned about firearms and explosives while stationed in Fort Benning, Ga. Two months before the Olympics bombing in Atlanta, he sold his childhood home...