Word: plight
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...RETIRED HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL with 37 years in education, I thank you for your report. It was balanced and right on target. Teachers will feel gratified that someone understands and sympathizes with their growing plight. Parents who fit the negative paradigms should take a good look in the mirror--and reflect...
...malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens. In writing The End of Poverty, Sachs has attempted to construct a new way of looking at the plight of the world's poorest people, who number more than 1 billion. As he puts it, "More than 8 million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive." He argues passionately that these deaths would be entirely avoidable if the developed countries...
...conference is of particular relevance this year in light of recent criticisms of the plight of women in science at Harvard...
Best's vision became donorschoose.org a site that allows donors to search teacher requests and fund the projects they like best. The charity then buys the supplies--anything from colored pencils to microscopes--and ships them to classrooms. "People knew the plight of students in our public schools," says Best, 29, whose own education, at Yale University and an exclusive New Hampshire boarding school, was unmarked by economic hardship of any kind. "They wanted to help out but wondered if their contributions were going to go into a black hole...
...whole community is aching over this," says Don Rucknagel, a retired University of Cincinnati professor. "But this war is much bigger than this young man. We're bogged down in another quagmire." That's a minority view, though. The soldiers manning the recruiting station where Maupin enlisted say his plight hasn't hurt their efforts. "His name comes up a lot, but people don't blame the military for what happened," says Staff Sergeant Jeff Herrold. "And there are still people here brave enough to serve...