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...influx of more affluent students continues, the School Committee has made clear that it will have to find a more permanent fix to the controlled-choice program, either through changing the target and changing the band, or using some measure other than free-and-reduced lunch...
...this year, Cambridge saw an influx of more middle class students at the kindergarten level—approximately two thirds of the first group to sign up for kindergarten were “paid lunch.” Some have questioned whether the formulas used by the district should be adjusted in order to allow more flexibility, which would allow more parents to receive one of their top choices...
...reduce investment volatility by profiting in bear markets as well as bull. But some wonder if the industry is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. The number of funds has swelled from 6,297 in 2003 to nearly 10,000 today, raising concerns that an influx of young, inexperienced managers will find it increasingly difficult to post market-beating returns. Managers charge a lot for their expertise - typically a 2% annual management fee plus 20% of profits. But with funds multiplying in both diversity and complexity, industry insiders expect competition to force less successful funds...
...While more than 150,000 people live in squalid, sprawling camps around north Darfur's main town, shopkeepers are cashing in on the influx of aid workers with money to spend. A six-story shopping mall and office block is under construction next door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says...
...This week the people of Southern California may have reached that edge. "We're in a state of shock right now," says Dr. Zab Mosenifar, director of the Cedars-Sinai Women's Guild Pulmonary Disease Institute in Los Angeles, who was preparing for an influx of smoke-inhalation victims at his hospital. "This is beyond thinking." Beginning overnight on Oct. 20, unusually fierce Santa Ana winds stoked fires that quickly burst into life throughout a dry, hot landscape. By midweek, more than 20 separate blazes formed pockets of fire running from the Mexican border north to Simi Valley outside...