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...term to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the unlikely revolutionary whose four-year overhaul of social legislation has made Spain a paragon of progressive family law. Popular Party challenger Mariano Rajoy has attempted to tap into what he sees as an underlying distrust of those rapid changes, but even he shies away from addressing them directly because he is aware that his allies in the Catholic Church hierarchy awaken distrust as well...
...everything from technology to diversity. Look at the faces in the story. Each one says, "Yeah, I may be young, but I know what I'm doing and where I'm going. Do you?" The candidate who wins our vote is the candidate who can answer that. Adam Gangelhoff, Rapid City...
...Rapid urbanization, the growing intellectual and economic independence of women and the dislocations of World War I had all helped loosen traditional morals. As Americans read Sigmund Freud's dark warning about the effects of suppressed desire, writes Historian Geoffrey Perrett, "sexual freedom appeared to be scientific, more or less." By 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald testily complained that "the universal preoccupation with sex had become a nuisance...
...here when the ice caps melt. Look at the faces on the cover. Each one says, "I may be young, but I know what I'm doing and where I'm going. Do you?" The candidate who can answer that is the candidate who wins our vote. Adam Gangelhoff RAPID CITY...
...teach in U.S. public schools, but, according to projections by economist William Hussar at the National Center for Education Statistics, the nation will need to recruit an additional 2.8 million over the next eight years owing to baby-boomer retirement, growing student enrollment and staff turnover-which is especially rapid among new teachers. Finding and keeping high-quality teachers are key to America's competitiveness as a nation. Recent test results show that U.S. 10th-graders ranked just 17th in science among peers from 30 nations, while in math they placed in the bottom five. Research suggests that a good...