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...million people remain in poverty, a third are illiterate and 40% have no safe water supply. Then there is the environmental cost: more than 1.5 million tons of oil have been spilled over 50 years, and the Niger Delta is one of the most polluted places on earth...
...state-owned companies appear to have lots of oil, they're generally less adept at getting it out of the ground quickly than the private Western oil giants. All of which appears to mean that today's gasoline prices, unlike those of the 1980s, won't be returning to earth anytime soon...
...Baptist Church--is Liberty University, a college that has 100,000 graduates and more than 21,000 students. They will be his final tribute, bearing his standard for decades. As for Falwell's "politics of division," Jesus said, "Do not suppose I have come to bring peace to the earth! I came to bring trouble, not peace" (Matthew 10: 34). As Falwell knew, the word of God is often at odds with the twisted schemes of mankind...
...state teachers and principals interview district officials as part of a peer review of their test-making methods. "What we've got that no one else has is a cadre of teachers in the state who are as assessment literate as any educators on the face of the earth," Christensen says. "They know how to teach to an outcome, to measure the outcome with high technical quality, and they know how to use that information to improve instruction...
Where would you go if you had only 24 hours to live? That's a question we should all ask ourselves quite regularly, because that way you get to do all the things you want to do before you die. My own "last day on earth" list would include an array of English delights: a pint of Harveys real ale in my village pub (the Royal Oak in Newick, East Sussex), a champagne picnic at Lord's Cricket Ground in London during a test match, an hour spent staring wistfully at the goalmouth in Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium, lunch...