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...With her pupil-less eyes, brass breastplate and art-deco winged headpiece, Promethea looks like a combination of Wonder Woman and a 1930s Chrysler hood ornament. Set in a world very like our own, but slightly more technologically advanced - they have hover cars and science villains like "Jellyhead" - Promethea appears when Sophie Bangs, a poetically precocious teenager, channels her from out of the world of imagination. During the first twelve issues Promethea discovers she is the latest in a long line of Prometheas, all of whom materialize through works of an artist. Mixing typical superhero fisticuffs with darker themes...
Adrahtas continues to follow Dov’s progress, talking on the phone with him about once a week and checking his games over the internet. He considers his former pupil the prototype at the backstop position...
...1990s for the first time in the state's history--and its dysfunctional, overcrowded schools look woefully unprepared for that shift. Bush has pushed education reform, assigning A+ to F grades for schools statewide in an effort to raise test scores. Still, Florida ranks 40th in K-12 per-pupil spending. It's a key reason why tax-allergic Floridians have put expensive initiatives for universal pre-K and class-size limits on the Nov. 5 ballot--and why both items are favored in polls. As McBride sees it, the problem for Bush and his conservative legislature is that their...
...kind of doting, but not blind." Now she is toying with the idea of acting. She has already turned down Bollywood offers, but is thinking of doing a small-budget Indian film. Like her father, Anoushka has also begun to teach. So far she has just one pupil - the college-student daughter of family friends. Though Anoushka says she's not an overly strict instructor, like her father, she demands plenty of practice. Q&A TIME: What was it like having your father as your musical guru? SHANKAR: Now we have a pretty good balance, but it was more difficult...
Even with the restored funding, there have been worries that Metco’s cost to suburban school districts might erode its support. Schools receive only $2,880 per Metco student, whereas the average per-pupil expenditure in Massachusetts is over $7,000. But on the contrary, while suburban participation has remained steady overall, the town of Bedford is significantly increasing its Metco enrollment for the coming year, from 46 to approximately 70 students...