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...Life" columnist Petronella Wyatt. Johnson's private life is his own business, but Tory leader Michael Howard fired him as shadow arts minister on the deliciously Clintonian grounds that he hadn't told the whole truth about it when asked (which Johnson denies). One executive at the Spectator's parent company jokes, without much mirth, that "it looks like they don't have enough work to do there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passion and Politics | 12/5/2004 | See Source »

...something happened to one of our students, and a parent sued, the question is why did you encourage your student to go to a place that your State Department said was unsafe,” said Coatsworth, who is also chair of the Committee on Education Abroad...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Deters Travel to More Countries | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

...warming up to a driverless future. At a recent two-week-long test drive in Antibes, more than 3,000 people were able to take free rides in a CyberCar. Although some passengers might at first be nervous about cruising around town in a machine with no living navigator, Parent says, "in the end they will trust our technology." This gives new meaning to the term designated driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Ma, No Hands | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...discrepancies baffle Fornero because the median family income in the integrated city is $71,293 and the district spends a generous $9,234 on each pupil. Furthermore, the vast majority of students come from homes in which at least one parent is college educated. "How do I market the district to African-American parents with these numbers?" he says of the black students' performance. "We can't have one set of facts we put on billboards in front of the schools and another set we don't talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing The Gap | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...Learning (2003), the follow-up to America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible, Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, senior fellows at the Manhattan Institute, argue that black underachievement stems from such factors as low birth weight, which can impair intellectual development, and a high number of single-parent households led by mothers too young to give their children proper educational guidance. Other experts have cited inadequate funding for poor schools and the difficulty of recruiting good teachers to work in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing The Gap | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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