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Kacyvenski broke a number of records in his senior year, including tackles in a game (20) and in a season (108), and finished his career with a record 395 tackles...
...Ellis cited fear as the main reason for the skyrocketing number of prisons being built...
...measure of health care reform. Clinton's foiled attempt at sweeping health care reform remains one of the great failures of his domestic agenda. And so, in an attempt to beat the rest of the political world to the punch, Clinton announced a plan Monday to drastically reduce the number of medical errors perpetrated each year, which the NAS report listed as causing upwards of 98,000 deaths and nearly $9 billion in extra costs each year. The report included a comprehensive plan for halving those numbers within five years, including the creation of a new federal agency...
Lesson 1: The masks work. You find out how well when you lift it up for the few seconds it takes to blurt your name, rank and Social Security number, and choke on the whiff you get when you do. Clear your mask - a puff out through the one-way mouth hole - and you're back in the pink, congratulating yourself on your fortitude and staring quizzically at the masked-and-gloved drill sergeants burning the CS sticks, wondering if the drama of this boot camp ordeal, like so many others, had been oversold...
...increasing number of cities across the U.S. have uncorked a revolutionary way to improve student performance (drum roll...): make sure they go to school. With a National Education Goals Panel report released last week declaring that the nation is behind schedule in its stated aim to improve schooling, mayors across the country are concluding that you can't learn much or graduate if you don't show up. Thus, more and more cities are taking a get-tough approach to battling poor performance - and arresting kids who play hooky. While the approach is too new to claim major academic victories...