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...many parents, the PTA - with its name recognition and history of reliable annual fundraisers - is the natural first line of defense. In Castro Valley, Calif., for example, Proctor Elementary's PTA raised $17,000 during the 2008-09 school year through a walkathon, an auction and a $60-per-child suggested contribution to the PTA. The group was able to put that money toward the salary of a paraprofessional whose job was endangered. "The state is supposed to provide the black-and-white essentials of a good education, and the PTA fills in the color," says California state PTA president...
...clutch of 11 custom-designed mobile panels helps create individual dining zones that can contract and expand according to crowd levels. Smaller tables, accented by original George Nelson swag-leg chairs, have been rendered from resin and glow from within via abundant natural light. Outside, the designer name-dropping continues unabated via Bertoia chairs and Durat tabletops crafted from recycled plastic. It's all capped by the superlative Italian creations of local celeb chef Tony Mantuano - a favorite of the Obamas, no less. See more at www.terzopianochicago.com...
Most Australians know very little about Somalia and even less about the al-Shabaab group that has been fighting for control of the war-torn African nation since 2006. But on Tuesday, Aug. 4, they quickly began to learn the pronunciation of the Somali terrorist group's name. Just before dawn, approximately 400 police from state and federal departments fanned out across Melbourne and its southwest, raiding 19 properties and arresting four men and questioning others. The police claim they had foiled a suicide plot by Al-Shabaab supporters to storm a Sydney military base and kill as many soldiers...
...implosion of Wall Street is already having this salutary effect, prompting some bankers to start up new financial firms and others to go to work for smaller, no-name companies. Which should, among other things, help reduce the dangerous overconcentration of capital and risk that made the present crisis so dangerous and devastating. "If the risk-taking spreads out to these smaller institutions, it is no longer a systemic threat," according to Matthew Richardson, a finance professor at New York University. "And innovation is spreading out too. This is a good thing...
...Chrysler may be on their last legs - but small, visionary startup companies like Aptera Motors, Fisker Automotive, Tesla Motors and Bright Automotive are starting to sell their cool, cutting-edge, battery-powered cars, and a decade from now any one of them might be the household name that epitomizes our 21st century industrial rebirth. (I just drove in an Aptera. It looks like an awesome Jetsons vehicle, plugs into the wall, drives like a dream, goes 100 miles on a charge, costs under $30,000 - and I want...