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...this is despite the fact that education is the biggest line item in most state budgets. Indeed, total U.S. spending on education in 1994 was estimated at $484 billion, almost double the $250 billion spent on defense. But of the average $5,300 spent per pupil each year, some experts estimate that less than half goes into the classroom. The rest goes to such important auxiliary services as athletic coaching and lunch programs--but also to the bureaucracy that both supports and entangles the nation's school system. ``What does this say about our priorities?'' asks Chester E. Finn...
Finding a dean of the College--and deciding what he or she will do--is not the only overdue item on Knowles' agenda...
...come to a vote in the full House. Incoming Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois expects to have the bill out of his committee next week and ready for floor action by Jan. 19. It will be followed in short order by a bill giving the President a line-item veto and the first round of budget cuts...
...there will be new editions of the some 40 that are in print now -- as well as character dolls of the Concord girls, period clothing from Lanz, antique-style jewelry at J.C. Penney and baskets of scented products from Crabtree & Evelyn. The Alcotts would be in awe of every item. They had few possessions, and their diet consisted mostly of the "aspiring" vegetables -- grown aboveground -- that papa Bronson approved...
...looking at one particular area, it's the salad bar," he said. "Every other food item has come back clean of toxins and bacteria...