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Long gone are the days when the school was a fortress, opened a couple of times a year for parents' night and graduation but generally off limits to parents unless their kids got into trouble. Now you can't walk into schools, public or private, without tripping over parents in the halls. They volunteer as library aides and reading coaches and Mentor Moms, supplement the physical-education offerings with yoga and kickboxing, sponsor faculty-appreciation lunches and fund-raising barbecues, supervise field trips and road games and father-daughter service projects. Even the heads of boarding schools report that some...
...about 100,000 believe the true number is closer to the initial estimate. In 12 seconds of annihilation, the quake destroyed 85% of the city's buildings, flattening thousands of traditional mud-brick homes as well as Bam's approximately 2,000-year-old Citadel, an imposing clay fortress that once adorned the ancient Silk Road. Despite the hard work of Iranian and international relief agencies, Bam remains a disaster zone. The streets are full of bricks, tangled metal and rubble. For now, many survivors live in prefabricated 12-sq-m living quarters called "connex." Cargo containers on the roadsides...
...over they emerge from the river, the long boats floating above their six-foot-something frames. Nothing can penetrate the army mentality, the metal strength of the company: “This We’ll Defend.” The warlords will not concede. The Charles is their fortress. But don’t count the battle won before it’s started. A parched pack of Huskies lurks close by seeking to mark its own territory. It thirsts for Crimson blood. And it loves that dirty water...
...Friday nights and free to children 16 and under. There are student and senior discounts. All the same, for a lot of people, it won't be a place where you just stroll in at lunchtime anymore. Will the headquarters of modern art also become the castle keep, a fortress surrounded by a moat called $20? "It falls on us," says Lowry, "to make sure that the value greatly exceeds the cost." The Modern has always lived up to that goal in the past. But this time, it has set its bar pretty high...
...capital on Saturday killed Kenneth Scroggs, an American who worked for Advanced Electronics Co., a Saudi firm that supplies technology to the armed forces. And in a further escalation, al-Qaeda claimed Saturday to have taken an American, Apache-helicopter specialist Paul M. Johnson, hostage. Riyadh now resembles a fortress, with government buildings, hotels and expat compounds protected by heavily armed Saudi forces and concrete barricades. Travellers endure long queues at police checkpoints. "I get nervous when I see a group of Western-looking foreigners," says Khalid Yousef, a 22-year-old university student in Jidda. "You don't want...