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...These numbers extend across economic lines: In 1997 and 1998, for example, 10.6 percent of wealthiest residents in rural areas lacked health insurance, compared to 10 percent of all urban residents and 6.6 percent of suburbanites. Dental care was also a serious problem for rural dwellers; 37.6 percent of rural residents over 65 have suffered total tooth loss, compared with 25.7 percent of suburbanites and 26.8 percent of folks in cities...
...vast ovoid, some 300 ft. across, that formed the sanctuary itself. The ovoid is enclosed by a thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 40 ft. long. The AFSM team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than 30 ft. beneath the sand, and it is exploring the site using ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech tools...
...same blinkered approach can extend to academics. "I make pretty much all the decisions about what to study," says Maren McKee, 15, of Naperville, Ill., who left public school after third grade. "I wasn't interested in math or composition, so I didn't really do it. I liked to dance." But now McKee, who is dyslexic, realizes she will need more than dance steps to get into college. "My mom and I are going to spend this whole year on math and learning to write," she says, perhaps not fully appreciating that both of those skills can take much...
...trying to get access to public school services that their taxes help fund. Many home schoolers feel that exposes the movement to too much government interference. "We are really afraid," says James Carper, an education historian at the University of South Carolina, who home schools. "When public schools extend the opportunity to become involved, it is inevitably going to compromise our independence...
Over the past couple of years, we have spent a lot of TIME talking to TIME readers about how the Internet could enhance and extend the mission of TIME. The idea that got folks most excited was the ability to access and search TIME's archive online...