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...schools can earn bonuses of as much as $25,000; low-performing schools risk takeover by the state. Texas officials boast that since 1994, scores have risen by 27%, and more students are taking the SAT and college-level advanced-placement exams. A study released last month by the Rand Corp. ranked Texas first in the U.S. in educating children, when measured by comparing students with similar family backgrounds. Officials also cite the shrinking gap in Texas between the scores of minority students and their white peers. In 1994, 28% of blacks and 34% of Hispanics in 10th grade passed...
...generation behind just won't have enough buyers). And your neighbors' children, simultaneously burdened with the cost of your aging and victimized by the one thing you'll hold onto--your political power--will boil with resentment. Your own kids may get especially peevish: even today, says Rand Corp. economist James P. Smith, "half the adult children with parents who die over age 70 get zero. Parents are living longer, with more health expenses. The first thing to go...is bequests to children...
...served as Secretary of Defense, the chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), director of strategic studies at the RAND Corporation and a professor of economics at the University of Virginia...
...Schlesinger then went on to work for the RAND Corporation--a California based research institution founded in 1948 which studies national security and public welfare--and decided then to enter government...
...color JPEG images. The really cool stuff, though, is on the way; I figure most of the 5,000 Palm applications out there will be colorized faster than you can say Gone With the Windows. Think of all the kinds of programs that color will make possible. For example, Rand McNally, maker of StreetFinder, promises a new version that will work in conjunction with a snap-on GPS device and show you, in brilliant color, your precise coordinates...