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...school, an institution that, particularly in crowded global cities like London, efficiently sorts kids by socioeconomic class. A 2004 study of British schoolchildren by University of Bristol researchers found that the wider the choice of schools parents have, the more segregated pupils are by background. I've seen this firsthand, having just dispatched my youngest child, Nicola, to school...
...cycle of inadequate funding,” said Wolf. “In this way, we won’t need to spend more down the line on our healthcare system and motels [where homeless people are often temporarily housed].” Numerous Harvard students have a firsthand view of the homeless epidemic by volunteering at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter on 66 Winthrop St. “Working at the shelter has taught me how to listen and respect people without judging them,” said Eleanor R. Wilking ’09, a senior director...
Dionicio would not let anything stand in his way. He even called on President John F. Kennedy to come and witness our community's needs firsthand and to help bring federal programs into East Los Angeles. He was told to call the Mexican Embassy instead...
...Alliance and the U.S.-led forces in 2001. Today, the bullet holes along the walls of the fortress remain unplastered. Shoib Najafizada, Afghan Logistics and Tours' man in Mazar, leads visitors around the rusty remnants of tanks and heavy artillery that lie strewn around. Like other guides, Najafizada offers firsthand accounts of some of the key moments of the country's recent turbulence. He was present at the battle of Qala-i-Jangi, as a translator for the coalition forces, and today he deciphers the untouched graffiti scratched in Persian and Urdu into black scorched walls of the fortress: "Long...
...firsthand look at such heroism this summer when I joined a team of international researchers led by Dahl-Jensen at the NEEM camp in Greenland. NEEM stands for North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (the acronym is Danish, as are the leaders of the project), and the scientists are digging deep into the Greenland ice--more than a mile and a half deep to be precise--to try to understand its pedigree. Depth is time, and the lower you go, the further back in history you travel. As ice formed in Greenland, year after cold year, bits of atmosphere were trapped...