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...points Gap in scores between 17-year-old black students and white students on a national science test last year, up from 48 points...
...have risen by 27%, and more students are taking the SAT and college-level advanced-placement exams. A study released last month by the Rand Corp. ranked Texas first in the U.S. in educating children, when measured by comparing students with similar family backgrounds. Officials also cite the shrinking gap in Texas between the scores of minority students and their white peers. In 1994, 28% of blacks and 34% of Hispanics in 10th grade passed the exam. This year, 67% and 70% did, respectively...
...Which brings us to the biggest storm cloud out there: The economy, is she slowing too fast? Formerly high-flying retailers - Gap, J.C. Penney, Target, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart (yes, Wal-Mart) - have been getting downgraded by analysts and dumped by investors, as profit warning after profit warning comes out. When this consumer-driven economy cools, it's the malls that feel the pain first...
...eight months ago, the company has doubled revenues to more than $30 billion. Most of that is made through trading everything from energy and paper to weather risk derivatives and now bandwidth--more than 800 offerings in all. Think of eBay, but instead of auctioning $5 used Baby Gap pajamas, the company trades $600,000 blocks of natural gas--and pockets commensurately huge commissions. Boasts Enron president Jeffrey Skilling: "In terms of dollars transacted, we're the world's largest online site by a factor...
...white male gap between Bush and Gore is explained by this: A disproportionate number of men pick up a vibration from Gore that they do not like; it has less to do with policy than with character. They do not get this vibration from Bush...