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...After an hour or so, Kim stood up and prepared to leave with his men. He told Karim he would be back to check on the detainee in the morning. The detainee raised his thin arms and called out to Kim's translator, Specialist Mohammed Houbban, 43, of Morocco by way of Orlando. "He was begging to come with us," said Spc. Houbban as he walked out of the station. "He did not want to be left with them. And he just tried to kill us." (Check out a story about the Iraqi government's Mosul offensive...
...biggest low-cost growth areas is in online tutoring, a relatively new addition to the $4 billion test prep industry. The Princeton Review's cheapest online program - which includes three weeks of access to practice tests and online office hours with a certified instructor - will set you back a mere $85, less than a quarter of what the company charges for a single hour with a flesh-and-blood tutor; enrollment in its online offerings grew 15% in 2008. Over at Academic Approach, online programs are also enjoying double-digit growth. They're more expensive - $499.99 for 45 instructional videos...
...downside, namely that there's often no one cracking the whip to force kids to study. But for many students, scheduling cyber tutoring is more manageable than a marathon weekend session offline. Quinn McMahon, 18, a senior at the Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., for example, squeezed in an hour per week of online ACT prep this fall - along with supplementary phone calls to an Academic Approach tutor - in between football practice and studying for his four Advanced Placement courses. "I don't really have time to meet for long periods of time with someone," he says...
...best of days, Washington and Wall Street are as antsy as a boy who plants an acorn and then starts talking about climbing the tree. And these are not the best of days. Under the stress of a global financial disaster and juiced up on the amphetamine of 24-hour cable chatter, America's axis of money and influence is jittery and nervous and primed for panic...
...House Masters: Endearing? Creepy? While the Georgis are very friendly with the natives, FlyBy’s parents were a little irked by their insistence on introducing themselves as "Chief" and "Coach." Rumor has it that they really get loose at their weekly Sherry hour in the Senior Common Room...