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...more 12-year-olds than ever before took entrance exams for selective private and national high schools, their parents desperate to remove them from a dysfunctional public-education system. While conservatives worried about declining academic performance and motivation, a highly publicized string of student suicides last fall showed the extent to which bullying had poisoned Japan's classrooms...
...million renovation, the museum has won praise for the extent to which it now references its surroundings. The exterior architecture was inspired in part by the tectonic plates that gave rise to Alaska's mountains. Large windows flood the interior with light. In the new art gallery, paintings and photographs hang next to ceremonial objects and carvings by Alaskan natives-the message being that traditional crafts have as much cultural importance as fine art. But it's the museum's most innovative display that best captures the region. The Place Where You Go to Listen, the vision of Fairbanks artist...
...some extent, this public discontent is a worldwide phenomenon. Wages in all industrialized countries have been under pressure due to growing global competition and technological change. In Germany, for example, automotive workers over the past few years agreed to work longer and more flexible hours for no increase in pay to prevent their jobs moving to Slovakia and elsewhere. Such agreements have helped the German economy rebound, but they've stoked resentment, particularly since corporate profits, stock prices and the pay packets of top executives are soaring. The share of wages as a percentage of national income in industrialized countries...
...last night, the City of Cambridge Fire Department had not determined the source and extent of the fire, Burns said. The fire was successfully quenched and an investigation is underway. Among the businesses closed and evacuated was the Brattle Street Theatre, which had been running a special Valentine’s Day showing of “Casablanca...
...still be a central aspect of general education. A truly educated person of the modern world, in other words, must be prepared to think seriously about the possibilities for leading a life and ought to be challenged to take a stand on their own way of living. To the extent that our system of general education has lost sight of this goal, it has lost sight of its most fundamental purpose...