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...tell whether most voucher-supported students perform better academically in a private school, no one needs a study to show that most private schools are safer and more orderly. For inner-city parents, vouchers can represent salvation from a system in perpetual disrepair, even if they offer just a fraction of poor children a way into the lifeboat of private schooling...
...great opportunity for investment. They are neither. They are printed in tiny countries at the request of the I.C.S., and only enough are used in the country of origin to qualify them as "genuine postally used." The block of nine Socks stamps, which sells for $12.95, costs a small fraction of a dollar to print. SHERWOOD J. SYVERSON, President Lakes Stamp Club Lakewood, Wash...
...statistics that show an "all-time high" of cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. represent only a tiny fraction of actual cases. Rather than the 16,000 cases your chart showed, there are more than half a million, and perhaps even as many as 2 million Americans who are infected with the disease, but not all of them are aware of it. Millions more may go to their death never knowing their lives were shattered by Lyme disease, misdiagnosed as one of the illnesses that Lyme mimics and camouflages itself as. Lyme disease ranks as one of the fastest...
...nation's conscience as well as mine. Government programs are shot through with benefits for those who don't need them. Yet any proposal to institute a means test is either ignored or howled down. Example: Medicare premiums are the same for me as for someone with a fraction of my income. But the Senate's proposal to make affluent seniors pay more was dropped from the tax bill, largely because House Republicans feared a savage attack from Democrats...
...this plate any time soon. It's enough to make you go back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction of usual deliveries, as the stalemate becomes a stage for the Labor vs. Corporate America battle over the use of part-time workers to cut costs and stay competitive in the way-new global economy...