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The landscape is not bleak for everyone. Math and science proficiency has increased in the past decade, particularly among minority students, and SAT scores are also on the rise for blacks and Asian Americans. Compared with other industrial nations, Americans receive more education: in 1991 nearly two-thirds of recent...
A thoughtful public-health expert tells us what we don't want to hear: the nation's health is fairly good but should be better, and the failings are mostly not medical. Public health depends more on private behavior--boring, heard-it-before considerations of how much we eat, drink...
Italian Cardinals number only 19 out of the 120 electors, and they are unlikely to vote as a bloc. Neither are the Americans who, with 10 voting Cardinals, are second only to the Italians. In any case, few can imagine a U.S. Pope -- America's status as the world's...
"The proportion of students whose first language is not English has increased by nearly three percent," she added. "We remain a very diverse, but very effective urban school system."
Supporters of the proposition say that California's economy has been hard hit by the cut-backs in the defense industry and that unemployment is high in the state. Illegal immigration to these people only heightens the economic woes of the state by its use of social services and usurpation...