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...public schools in the country, but ranks near last overall in education funding. And while the group Kids Count reported this week that Illinois shot up from near bottom of its annual well-being ranking of states' children, the state still languishes in the middle of the pack at 24th. Too many kids still live in poverty or are from families with no working parents, even as infant mortality and other negative indicators have fallen, according to the report put out by the Annie E. Casey Foundation of Baltimore...
Just to reach the banks of the River of Doubt, however, Roosevelt and his men had to endure a grueling monthlong journey across the Brazilian Highlands. They lost dozens of pack mules and oxen to starvation and exhaustion and were forced to abandon crates filled with provisions. At the river's edge, Roosevelt had taken stock of what was left and realized that he and his men would have to cut their provisions in half before they launched a single boat...
More than two years ago, after Howard Dean's presidential campaign crashed and burned in the Iowa primary, the conventional wisdom was that his enthusiastic Internet supporters may have been able to raise millions online, but didn't pack much political power. When Dean invited them to knock on doors and make phones calls in Iowa in the final days of the primary, their rabid enthusiasm seemed to turn off Iowans - he lost there, and in 25 straight primaries. And once Dean's campaign died, the liberal bloggers' role in the presidential election was much smaller...
...take themselves as seriously as mainstream journalists do, either. On the conference's last day, someone brought an industrial roll of aluminum foil and dozens of attendees spent the afternoon walking around in elaborate tin-foil hats. If Judy Miller of the New York Times had thought to pack along a similar prop when she was embedded in Iraq - or practiced a similar sort of skepticism about her sources and her reporterly ego - perhaps the mainstream media wouldn't be as reliable a punchline at these gatherings today...
...THOUSAND) DEGREES OF SEPARATION Harvard College leads the pack...