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...payoffs have been even greater on the local level. Consider El Paso, Texas, where one-third of the adult residents cannot read English and last year only 75% graduated from high school. Ten years ago, the University of Texas at El Paso joined with that city's community leaders and three of its largest and lowest-performing school districts. Today UTEP's mark is apparent everywhere, from the schools' cheery hallways (the once drab corridors are papered over with student artwork) to test scores...
...payoffs have been even greater on the local level. Consider El Paso, Texas, where one-third of the adult residents cannot read English and last year only 75% graduated from high school. Ten years ago, the University of Texas at El Paso joined with that city's community leaders and three of its largest and lowest-performing school districts. Today UTEP's mark is apparent everywhere, from the schools' cheery hallways (the once drab corridors are papered over with student artwork) to test scores...
...office, for which the President will probably once again waive the usual requirement that Colombia show progress on human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That would probably mean a bloody fight to the finish. Demands for aid to Colombia (and even its neighbors) are only likely to increase...
...care that two-thirds of 8-to-18-year-olds and one-third of 2-to-7-year-olds already have TVs in their bedroom, as the Kaiser Family Foundation reported last year. We just assume their parents have tuned out all the research suggesting that children and television shouldn't be left alone together. Or maybe they need a spot for the 19-in. set displaced by that new home-theater system. Whatever the rationale, we're not buying it. Our three have-nots will have to make do with the Panasonic...
...body's message is not always so clear. You can have angina without necessarily having a heart attack, and you can have a heart attack without the chest pains of angina. Fully one-third of all heart-attack victims feel no muscle pain at all, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association last summer. Their most common symptom is extreme shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing. Other signs include nausea, profuse sweating, lightheadedness, fainting, palpitations or unexplained anxiety...