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...grade level. Rhodes is well aware of the miserable statistics, and when he first saw his new chancellor from afar, he thought she looked petite, foreign and underqualified. "I was like, She doesn't look ready for urban kids." But after they exchanged e-mails, he agreed to meet her downtown. He realized almost at once that he had underestimated her. "She actually sat with me," he says, "and talked eye to eye, like I was one of her co-workers." They decided to meet again, this time at Anacostia High. Rhodes began to talk about Rhee to his classmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhee Tackles Classroom Challenge | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Què haremos?” (“What will we do?”). “Your mission is to leave here and ask yourself, ‘¿Que haremos?’What will each of us leave here to do to meet the challenges of our new frontier?” she said. This was the fifth annual presentation of the New Frontier Awards, given each year to one elected official and one advocacy or community service worker. Named after a president remembered for his youth, the award has a similarly youthful twist?...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Booker Receives HKS Award | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

Only in Tanzania would a representative from the Ministry of Agriculture send you a text message to introduce herself and set up a meeting. “Helo Im Esther Mfugale. From Ministry of Agriculture. Would it be possible to meet on 22/11/08 at 10.00 Am.” Only in Tanzania...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Only in America | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...became an increasingly appealing and economically viable solution to our oil addiction. But we are really addicted to oil, and what little ethanol the U.S. produces domestically (made from surplus corn that we used to donate as food aid) has not been able to cut it. In order to meet demand, investors have turned to countries like Tanzania...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Only in America | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...energy and development. Unfortunately, combining goals can occur at the expense of both endeavors. For example, biofuel production will supposedly create jobs for Tanzanians, but when I spoke with SEKAB, a Swedish biofuel company, they told me production would be mechanized, requiring fewer workers. If they truly want to meet “development” goals, biofuel companies would have to make choices that may not reduce green house gas emissions or generate profit, choices these companies are unlikely to make...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Only in America | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

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