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...brought no lasting gains. Most say that's because Head Start has become more of a day-care service stressing health and nutrition, not literacy, as well as a jobs program for local mothers. It is true that kids can't learn unless they're healthy and well fed; but with no curriculum and loads of shoddy teachers, Head Start isn't living up to its potential...
...Straw, with 2,500 hrs. of flawless flying between them, spent the final seconds of their life steering their Cobra away from a school as its twin engines sputtered, slowing its rotor blades nearly to a halt. Upon impact, the aircraft exploded into a 1,500[degree]F fireball, fed by 300 gal. of jet fuel. The conflagration destroyed the helicopter, making it impossible to determine the cause of the crash...
...follows three teenage aliens as they evade discovery and seek their origins. "It's where so much of you is formed and the themes that will follow you your whole adult life are born." And doing a show about it is a great means of getting noticed. TV has fed the teen beast before, but these programs now enjoy cultural prominence, with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek becoming emblems of post-feminist girlhood, sex, violence, name your issue, in a way that Saved by the Bell never did. Today you hardly hear the word teen without angst...
...Could the Fed chairmen of the future have the world's easiest job? Some might argue that we are already in that golden age, though neither Sinai nor Alan Greenspan himself are willing to bet the farm on it. Sinai doesn't call the Internet a "wild card" for nothing; much about its effects on the economy have yet to be played out. "Frankly, we don't know enough about it at this point," he says. "How important is the Internet to the economy? All I can say is it's huge...
...Internet and the data networks are kind of a footnote in the whole thing," he says. The list goes on, from the mundanities of e-commerce ?- such as digital signatures or time-stamping ?- to the global question of formulating an international governing body for Internet issues. And the Fed won't be able to lay down on the job either, Varian insists. The easier it becomes to buy and sell anythingwith the click of a mouse, the more effective liquidity there is in the economy. It's a whole new kind of inflation headache...