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...three years since schools have begun using one-year English “immersion,” test scores of students in California who studied English as a second language have increased by more than 50 percent...
...While neither the FBI nor the intelligence agencies have specific information that the bin Laden organization plans to attack then, analysts believe terrorists may find the moment irresistible. But U.S. officials also recognize that a strike may not come that day, just as nothing happened on Oct. 12, the one-year anniversary of the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole...
DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, passionate, pugnacious, widely influential film critic; in Great Barrington, Mass. Kael began writing about movies in the San Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky...
...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) began a one-year pilot program this weekend that will offer late-night bus service on Friday and Saturday evenings. The “Night Owl” program creates 10 new bus routes that stop at the same stations that the subway system does during regular hours. Buses will depart from downtown Boston about every half hour beginning at 1 a.m. and ending at 2:30 a.m. Other feeder bus routes along the main transit corridors will have their hours similarly extended...
...Odds that a pacemaker will be recalled, or a safety alert issued, over a one-year period...