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...poorer areas. If schools didn't improve, he'd make vouchers an option for parents. He also says he'll help states double the number of charter schools in three years. The total cost: about $48 billion. Bush uses poll-tested phrases like "education recession" to describe a school mess, varyingly blamed on bureaucrats, distant teachers' unions, and the culture...
...short version: Increase domestic production of oil and other fuels and reduce dependence on foreign sources. The cost: $7.1 billion over 10 years. The selling point: If Clinton and Gore knew the business and had planned ahead, we wouldn't be in this mess...
...other words, the ongoing Firestone mess may have made a new car's tires something they weren't before: a deal-breaker. Ford's next Explorer will be courting customers more educated about things like tread separation than they ever wanted to be. With road conditions like that, Ford isn't taking any chances...
...hard to know what to make of the Hunter mess and of the turbocharging pharmaceuticals that so corrupt athletics now - all the potions to build up jocks with muscle mass and aggression and more red blood cells (and a bloated liver, maybe). One feels pained for Andreea Raducan, the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast who was stripped of her gold medal in the all-around competition because, it seems, her team physician had prescribed a cold remedy containing the stimulant pseudoephedrine. Was it fair to take the medal away when her intent seemed innocent? But what of the doctor...
...many drugs the IOC adds to its banned list, and despite new and more effective testing methods, many athletes will slip under the radar. Complicating the increasing number of rules is the lack of enforcement. IOC officials admit the random drug-testing method it employs is an inadequate mess...