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Foes of the program warn that successes like Hendon do not reflect the real impact of the program. Schools that opt out disrupt county planning efforts and drain from districts money that traditionally has been applied to a wide range of services, including the provision of child psychologists, substitute teachers...
Now the Administration has proposed a new manual that relaxes the rules. It designates as wetlands areas having 15 consecutive days of inundation during a growing season or 21 days in which the soil is saturated with water up to the surface. Moreover it redefines the growing season to be...
But just because rights exist, this does not mean it is the role of judges to enforce them. The institution of judicial review -- the power of unelected judges to overrule the democratic branches of government -- is a funny business. Judges do not have that power in other major democracies, and...
STAGE FRIGHT. The immigration law set to go into effect in October contains a minor provision causing major artistic anxiety: it limits to 25,000 a year the number of actors, musicians, models and athletes who can enter the U.S. to perform under temporary visas. Other oddities: applicants must be...
This is not the first time the Bush Administration has run afoul of doctors. Two years ago, Louis Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, angered medical researchers by extending a Reagan-era ban on federal funding for experiments involving fetal-tissue transplants, an important field that shows promise...