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...education courses at universities has forced up entry scores to record levels. The concern for policymakers is retaining teachers, who are leaving the profession in droves. University of Sydney researcher Robyn Ewing says younger teachers are leading the charge: having studied for four years or more, at least 30% quit in their first three to five years on the job, while among those placed at remote or disadvantaged schools, the figure could be as high as 50%. In N.S.W. the most common age at which teachers toss it in - outside the retirement years...
Meanwhile, the man running the U.N.'s probe of the scandal-ridden program scrambled last week to protect some of his findings from Congress. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker demanded that investigators on Capitol Hill return boxes of evidence they received from one of his employees who quit last month, associates say, angry because a Volcker report had underplayed criticism of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Concerned about leaks, Volcker said the documents included names of confidential sources "whose lives quite literally would be at risk if information about their cooperation became known...
...decade ago, Abby Waters, now 46, was a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company in Boca Raton, Fla., and was "totally miserable." Come Sunday night, she would dread Monday morning: "It got to the point where we were just dropping samples at the doctors' offices." That was 1994. She quit her job and wandered around for the next few years looking for a better idea. "You talk about a midlife crisis," she says. She had money troubles; her marriage fell apart. And she turned 40. "My friend called from the Carolinas. I told her, 'I don't want...
...telling the impact this generation is going to have as it reinvents what it means to get older and applies its many blessings and ingenuity to the pursuit of health and happiness. "As we age, everything for our generation is going to be different," says Susan Johnson, 54, who quit her job as a Washington lobbyist to become a consultant to families with aging parents and complex medical problems. "We're staying in shape. We're eating healthier. We're Internet savvy. As we start to get into our golden years, we'll be on the Internet, investigating drugs...
...radicals" during the cold war, when the magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Navasky's book is a reminder of a time when magazines served as forums for "moral and political argument, rational deliberation, critical analysis of the problem." Those are qualities that are missing in American political life...