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...which the school principal reported to both Edison and a local charter-school board was restricting. He says that Renaissance is an anomaly for Edison, which operates 136 schools serving 75,000 students in 22 states. According to Edison statistics, the average annual gain in test scores across its far-flung school system--4.2%--surpasses other districts of similar population size...
Procreation implies optimism. Mothers and fathers must believe that society will provide a haven, an environment in which their children will thrive. What does it say, then, if parents no longer have that faith? If rather than raise their children themselves, parents would send their beloved to far-flung corners of the world, anywhere, really, to escape the carnage of Kashmir...
...large amount of sensitive data collected by covert electronic listening devices and searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Not only did this make the data more accessible to potential FBI turncoats, but failing to flag the data as especially sensitive also opened the possibility that agents in far-flung venues might inadvertently disclose bits and pieces as evidence in court filings, thus compromising crucial intelligence penetrations of terrorist groups. On Oct. 12, FBI lawyers realized the blunder and ordered that all FISA data be tagged for special handling. But since the data were already scattered all over the agency...
...million subscribers; the breakeven point was 4 million. The company was losing more than $2 million a day, and he borrowed heavily to keep it running. Kirch also offered investors a "put option" - a promise to get their money back if they wanted to quit the company's far-flung businesses. Big players - Murdoch has an option on KirchPayTV and German newspaper publisher Axel Springer Verlag has one on ProSiebenSat.1 - began the year by demanding their money back at a time when the pay television operation had left the company with no cash...
Kava is a far-flung relative of the pepper plant that grows on the remote tropical islands of Polynesia. It's famous for the calm, dreamy state of mind it induces, and the locals have used it for centuries to celebrate weddings and greet visiting royalty. Kava enthusiasts claim that it can ease anything from anxiety and insomnia to menopause. In sleepless, stress-rattled America, consumers spend more than $50 million on kava--kava drinks, kava drops, kava capsules, kava candy and kava...