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...best, if prohibitively radical, proposal to fix this is the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, which draws from an all-star array of education experts from both parties. It would take the funding and much of the control of public schools away from local school boards, give financial and quality control to the states and force each school to become an entrepreneurial competitor for students. It would change the American public school system from one that emphasizes rote learning to a system that encourages and tests for creative and critical thinking. It would...
...concerned with that," Ziemer says. "I don't even know how much money is available. We were never told to try to limit the numbers." He added, "There's a lot of tension in what I'd call the emotional aspects. But why didn't Congress fix this in the first place? We've tried to do this very diligently. We all struggle with our empathy for the workers and what we're charged to do by law. This same story is multiplied all around the country...
...former Colorado Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez, who spoke on behalf of the Rocky Flats workers, says Congress did try to fix things. Beauprez grew up near Rocky Flats and knew families with three generations of Rocky Flats workers. He called the workers "patriots." He said, "We won that [cold] war. And knowing full well there was risk inherent, they did their jobs.... Democrats and Republicans in Congress - all representatives of the taxpayers - said, 'Take care of these people.' 'Don't submit these people to endless torture. These people...
...traveler who has sat stranded in a terminal - or worse yet, virtually held hostage on the tarmac - as flights are delayed knows the feeling that things can't get worse. Well, think again, say the industry's defenders. Now that some members of Congress have decided to try to fix things by passing a passenger bill of rights, they argue, the situation at the nation's airports could become more maddening and dysfunctional, with more delays and higher fares...
...hard to get a fix on just what the 80,000 protesters who descended on the G-8 summit here in northern Germany this week actually want. Plodding through a field towards the 7.2 mile, multimillion-dollar fence designed to keep him and his unkempt peers out, Channing Jones, a 40-year-old American freelance programmer, said Wednesday his purpose was to get governments to "help the common people." Earlier in the day, the art group Dropping Knowledge had released a huge floating sculpture of a baby into the River Warnow, in a less-than-self-explanatory attempt to show...