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...after establishing himself as one of the premier fencers in the world, it seems as if Ungar has nowhere...
...time, homeschooling ruled. In colonial Australia, education occurred in the family home or in dame schools, where a benevolent woman taught several children for a few hours a day in her home. In 1880, when less than a third of New South Wales children received schooling, the state's Premier, Henry Parkes, pushed through the Public Instruction Act, establishing free, secular and compulsory education. School has been seen as the place for kids to learn ever since. But homeschoolers are now lobbing water bombs at that status...
...Even premier players on powerhouse teams face an uphill struggle to make it. Some analysts doubt whether the Associated Press National Player of the Year, Duke’s J.J. Redick, will even amount to anything...
...Gilmore discusses the possibilities: allowing viewers to watch a world premier of a Sundance film on broadband, selling Sundance films to Pay-Per-View, packaging Sundance films with web platforms...
...Last month, on the sunday when Premier Wen Jiabao opened the annual National People's Congress with a speech about building a "new socialist countryside," Yu headed for the town of Changgou, in a rural district of Beijing, "to try to save some trees." Friends in the district government had phoned with news that Changgou had announced it would bulldoze several of its constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience...