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...ideas, and learn from each other. Critics of single-sex education worry that boys who are never forced to work on tasks with girls will have problems later in life working under a female boss or alongside female coworkers. This concern is certainly valid, and the effect cuts both ways: Being perpetually separated from boys may cause females to have qualms about standing up to male coworkers or supervisors. In order to be prepared for the working world, students must grow up without feelings of intimidation or inferiority about members of the opposite sex—this can only...
...them, there has to be enough evidence to either hold them on warrants or charge them under Iraqi law. Otherwise the new U.S-Iraqi security pact that came into effect in January demands that they be released. "Before, if we felt that we had a good basis to believe the individual was an imperative risk to the security of Iraq, that was good enough," says Quantock. "After 1 January [of this year], it is not." (See pictures from inside Guantanamo...
Meanwhile, because of the new U.S-Iraq security agreement that went into effect on Jan. 1, a first batch of 1,500 inmates were released from Camp Bucca last month, at a rate of about 50 a day. The marked improvement in security across Iraq has meant that more detainees are being released than captured. Last year, 18,600 low-threat inmates were freed from Bucca, while only half of that figure were taken in. Of those released, 497 were transferred to the Iraqi government...
...more. Each of these cities - Casper and Cheyenne, Wyo., Charleston and Morgantown, W.Va., Bismarck, N.D., and Jonesboro, Ark. - is now suffering the effects of the economic slump. "In the beginning, it was the manufacturing areas, the high-foreclosure areas, the places with the construction jobs and the banking and financial industries," says Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) economist Lisa Williamson. "Now, there's a ripple effect throughout the economy." (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...aluminum plant shutdown, unemployment in Charleston rose to 4.9% from 3.9% 12 months before. In Morgantown, the rate went to 3.9%, from 3.2%. Lower energy prices helped drive up the percentage of unemployed people in Casper to 4.2% from 3.4% year-over-year, and will likely have a similar effect on Bismarck's number when they're released next week...