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...public school students had the same parental drive behind them that home schoolers do, public schoolers' achievements would jump. Bottom line: it's a parent problem. ROBERT SIMPSON Indianapolis...
...abandon. Times have changed. A pound of copper sells for about half what it did five years ago, and cleaning up the environment absorbs many of the resulting pennies. So K.U.C. was pleased to stumble onto an asset that doesn't appear on the balance sheet of its corporate parent, Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto: its own backyard. There, a 4,500-acre community is expected to be built on a reclaimed polluting ground. Wheat grows there...
...Jive releases finished among the Top 10 best-selling U.S. albums: Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again, Backstreet's Black & Blue and 'N Sync's No Strings Attached. If you think that's just kid stuff, think again. Privately owned by South African entrepreneur Clive Calder, Jive (and its parent company, Zomba) rode the teen wave to an estimated $800 million in sales last year, making it the world's largest independent label. Jive's 6.7% U.S. market share placed it well ahead of better-established labels, including Arista (4.9%) and Def Jam (3.9%). This year Zomba (which also includes...
Federal authorities also seized a white Mitsubishi in the garage at Logan Airport that had been rented at an Alamo office just off the airport, said Cheryl Budd, senior vice president for corporate communications for Alamo’s parent company...
Unfortunately, such problems are not limited to poor urban neighborhoods—they are just more noticeable there. A lack of childhood stimulation, like most other social problems, is cyclical in nature. How would a parent understand the importance of books if books were not emphasized in his or her own childhood? How is any stressed parent, struggling to make ends meet, supposed to know that giving in to tantrums is only a temporary fix, and that they should take the opportunity lay down boundaries...