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Drawing from four farm towns, the CAL and Dows school districts, in a chicken-and hog-farming area about 90 miles north of Des Moines, are excelling despite declining enrollment. They have successfully negotiated the kind of consolidation that often tears schools and communities apart. And they serve as models for other rural districts with shrinking populations, especially in the Great Plains states...
Sixteen-year-old Brooks Douglass was on the floor, shot in the back, hog-tied and bound to his gagged parents, who were choking on their own blood. Two men, posing as stranded motorists, had come to their farmhouse in Okarche, Okla., asking to use the phone. Once inside, the armed men tied up Brooks and his parents, took turns trying to rape his 12-year-old sister, Leslie, then shot all four of them. Brooks helped free Leslie, who ran for a kitchen knife, while he gnawed at the ropes confining his mom and dad. By the time...
...That's why Heinecke, 52, astride a Harley Davidson FX, is leading a squadron of 700 motorcycle delivery boys mounted on Hondas and Yamahas through Bangkok's Siam Square shopping district to publicize the launch of his new Pizza Company chain. But as he revs the engine on his hog, even this veteran of numerous thick-crust and double-cheese campaigns has his doubts: "What if we bomb...
...Opera is still racing against its U.S. competitors to offer features like encryption that are crucial to Web users but can hog disc-drive space. The company's latest innovation allows the Opera browser to function like rival Microsoft's ubiquitous?PowerPoint software to make presentations on the Web. It's an open question when the company can expect a market listing now that high-tech stocks are out of favor in both Europe and the U.S. Having succeeded so far with its unorthodox business model, though, Opera's executives are confident they can continue to offer everything their bigger rivals...
...Kennedy and his lawyers are planning for a long fight. In the months ahead, they say they'll file hundreds of suits nationwide against the company and other hog operations. "People have been waiting years for government to step in," he says. "They've come to the conclusion that government isn't going to help." Now, he says, it's time for the lawyers...