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...goods, higher costs on the mainland tend to show up on store shelves at Wal-Mart and other major retailers around the world. The U.S. Commerce Department says prices for imports from China rose at a 4.1% annual rate during the first half of 2007. That was the fastest pace since the U.S. began tracking Chinese import prices in 2003, and was well above the current U.S. inflation rate of about...
...some lawmakers like Virginia Senator Jim Webb, this double standard is unconscionable. The former Navy Secretary and highly decorated Vietnam vet is trying to goad Congress into updating the G.I. Bill, whose benefits have failed to keep pace with the rising cost of a college education, by providing full tuition to a state university plus a $1,000 monthly stipend to all veterans who have served a total of two years in Iraq or Afghanistan since 9/11--reserve forces included. His rationale for extending equal benefits to National Guard veterans: "Same battlefield, same soldier...
...generations, U.S. house price appreciation largely tracked inflation. But around 1995, home prices began rising at an unprecedented pace. The boom created wealth throughout the economy, but also created risks that spread far beyond the housing market. Here...
...standard deviations below the mean (those who score 55 or lower on IQ tests) require "special" education. But students with IQs that are at least three standard deviations above the mean (145 or higher) often have just as much trouble interacting with average kids and learning at an average pace. Shouldn't we do something special for them as well? True, these are IQs at the extremes. Of the 62 million school-age kids in the U.S., only about 62,000 have IQs above 145. (A similar number have IQs below 55.) That's a small number, but they appear...
...were a little less sensitive to snobbery, it wasn't as difficult for high-ability kids to skip grades. But since at least the mid-1980s, schools have often forced gifted students to stay in age-assigned grades--even though a 160-IQ kid trying to learn at the pace of average, 100-IQ kids is akin to an average girl trying to learn at the pace of a retarded girl with an IQ of 40. Advocates for gifted kids consider one of the most pernicious results to be "cooperative learning" arrangements in which high-ability students are paired with...