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Bush spoke Wednesday about punishing not just those involved in the attacks, but also the countries who tolerated the presence of terrorists on their soil. The unstated reference was to Afghanistan. Already the voices in Congress have been retributive and angry. Rep. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) said on Wednesday that the U.S. should simply, “bomb the hell out of [Afghanistan...
What a great leg! That's what Jacksonville State football coach Jack Crowe thought when from his office window he watched ASHLEY MARTIN, 20, kicking footballs after her soccer practice. He promptly recruited the pride of Sharpsburg, Ga., as his backup kicker. Last week he and 11,000 fans at the Alabama school watched Martin boot her way into college-football history as the first woman to play--and score--in Division I football. The 5-ft. 11-in., 160-lb. Martin ran onto the field, ponytail peeping out from under her helmet, to kick three extra points...
Many of the home-schooling parents we met were religious, but few were home schooling only to instill values. They had come to their decision after a variety of frustrations. Among them: the Fayetteville, Ga., school with 45 kindergartners in one room; the school administrators in Wheaton, Ill., who were so confused over what to do with Sue McCallum's boy that they put him in both remedial and gifted classes; the Glendale, Calif., school where Robert Phillipps' fifth-grader Bill saw too many fistfights...
...being good to one's family or good to one's community, it's not much of a choice at all. Many, of course, try to be both, but some parents say the schools are too far gone. Amy Langley, who home schools her son and daughter in Decatur, Ga., believes two-income families don't participate enough to make public schools work. "And too much class time is spent on discipline," she says...
...takes at least one class in a public or private school, according to the Federal Government. Home schoolers participate in extracurricular activities too. Many of the home-schooling parents interviewed by TIME were just as busy as any parents scheduling baseball practices and ballet classes. Judi Thomas of Marietta, Ga., says her daughter Juliet, 9, "has tap and ballet on Tuesdays; Wednesdays, there's choir; Thursdays, she has classes with other home schoolers; Fridays, there's usually a play date or a field trip...