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April’s voices rises with dismay. It’s more than she’d realized. Miles needs blood work too to be able to enroll in public school next year. This is going to take longer than she had hoped. “I may need to leave him a little longer at daycare today,” she sighs. The nurse leaves to prepare the shots. Mr. Miles begins demanding more stickers. Three, four, five...
...State of the Union address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous “Four Freedoms” speech. He spoke of a world in which Pharaoh and his armies no longer existed. He envisioned that in the not so distant future we would attain a world whose citizens enjoyed “freedom from want”—a world in which a mother would never have to choose between taking her child to the doctor and feeding her family for a week; a world in which a father would never have to sacrifice his daughter?...
...Just like grownups, kids need different kinds of incentives to get through the day, some highbrow and some low, some short-term, some longer-term. And money and other external rewards can be a gateway to more substantive motivators. KIPP fifth-graders get a lot of prizes like pencils; high school kids can earn freedoms - like the privilege of listening to their iPods at lunch. "Our ultimate goal is to get kids to be intrinsically motivated," says Joshua Zoia, who founded the KIPP Academy in Lynn, Mass. "But we have to get kids hooked in. We have to meet them...
...Even if leaders on both sides want good ties, they may succumb to the acid test of any foreign policy: domestic support. To many in the U.S., Beijing's old line that China has never hurt the interests of the U.S. in the period since reform began no longer holds true. In the eyes of many, China is hurting America's interests every day: its mercantilism creates a sense of danger in the American economy, its antagonism to foreign firms damages U.S. investment, its lack of unqualified help on nuclear proliferation tests Washington's patience...
...contracts with foreign governments, the NNSA gains title of the HEU at the exact moment that the crane's cables slacken and the container settles onto the ship. The crane operators regained control of the container, and a few moments later Chile no longer possessed a bomb's worth of HEU. In the bright morning sunshine, the first ship sailed out of the harbor, a Chilean gunboat darting in front of it like a little duckling. Onshore, the group piled back into the embassy van, and soon the remaining bottle of Champagne was uncorked. As Bieniawski slapped backs and offered...