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...agitation over No Child is not just about money, most experts agree. The Federal Government pays only about 8% of schooling costs. So changing the federal contibution has only so much impact. In fact, money--from any source--is not a panacea. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has tripled per-pupil spending in constant dollars, to roughly $10,800 a child, more than almost any other nation. And yet it gets average or below-average results compared with other First World countries...
...were attempting to exploit the growing political tension in the country, or were simply imitating the anti-Western violence that has become endemic in countries such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Thus far, there is no sign that the sudden upsurge in terrorism will have anything like the disastrous impact on Egyptian tourism caused by the gunmen who killed 58 foreigners in a 1997 attack at an ancient temple in Luxor. That was the last assault in a five-year onslaught by Egyptian extremist factions such as Islamic Jihad and Gemaat Islamiyah, whose leaders declared a truce after being crushed...
...statistics need to be humanized to inspire ordinary consumers to act, says Holdway: "The footprinting tool visualizes an individual's impact. Through the metaphor of soccer fields, any user can immediately understand the impact their lifestyle is having at a global level." Holdway has built a website www.weeeman.org) that allows people to calculate their own e-waste profile by entering the number of mobile phones and computers at their home, school or office. "Take only pictures, leave only footprints" has long been an environmentalist motto. Now, activists are hoping to erase even the footprints...
...Muslim world, change does not necessarily have to occur within the Western framework. Most Muslims find Hirsi Ali too extreme, though we don't agree with honor killings. Why not pick someone who genuinely represents the majority of Muslims in the West and has had a positive impact on the Muslim community and the world at large...
...science series The Ring of Truth, Morrison helped assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust-red scar, and no green or gray," he said--he became a lifelong champion of nonproliferation...