Word: effected
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...bringing only anxiety. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the city?s school voucher program, which had allowed as many as 5 percent of Cleveland?s students to attend private or parochial schools at taxpayers? expense. The reason? The voucher program, said the judge, has the "primary effect of advancing religion" (80 percent of the city?s vouchers are used in religious schools). Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ordered the program halted until a trial determines whether it violates the constitutional separation of church and state, leaving 4,003 pupils uncertain, as schools opened Wednesday, about whether they...
...Benenson, who is the world's leading expert in most things, called me over the weekend. "I just got a new Palm IIIe," he bragged, referring to the popular pocket-size digital organizer. He was particularly pleased with the price ($229). I waited, for cruel effect, then asked, "Is it too late to return it?" I am such a blowhard...
...downside, at least to some, is Sonata's brevity. Because the drug has a relatively short "half-life" (the time it takes for the substance to pass out of your body), it's effective in getting you to sleep ?- but not in keeping you there. Studies show that users get about four hours of sometimes fitful sleep using Sonata. The slower-to-work Ambien knocks you out for up to eight hours once it takes effect, but leaves you feeling groggy and hungover in the morning. The stakes for both companies are high: Ambien last year had U.S. sales...
...exactly agriculture, but the drought currently affecting the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest appars to be having a devastating effect on another rural crop: fall foliage. The lack of moisture has caused trees in New England and beyond to dry up and turn brown ahead of schedule. This has local businesses worried that the lack of foliage could cause tourists to make like a tree and, well, not show up at all those cute bed-and-breakfasts. And that could shave a considerable chunk of the estimated $8 billion that leaf-peepers pump into the regional economy...
DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY NO? The anti-drug program DARE is taught in 75% of U.S. school districts, yet a new study from the University of Kentucky indicates that it has no long-term effect on kids' use of illegal drugs. In interviews with those who completed DARE in 1988, 46% admitted to smoking marijuana and 24% to taking other drugs within the past year. Researchers say programs would be more effective if they focused on kids most at risk...