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This cooperation is largely motivated by self-interest--many schools can regain at least a percentage of their per-pupil funding by counting home schoolers, who get more options without being fully part of the system. "These programs can win parents back when they see the school is willing to offer alternative forms of education," says Patricia Lines, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle and one of the foremost experts on home schooling. "There's something very efficient about [traditional] schooling, and home schooling isn't exactly efficient." That's one reason TIME found so many home...
...television station Wednesday evening, signals the effective end of the political life of the Senator which began when balanced budgets were considered a radical idea. The irascible 79-year-old Helms has held his seat since 1972. GOP strategists insist Helms? impending departure will not hurt their chances to regain the Senate in 2002, but Democrats? undisguised glee over the announcement tells another story...
...back. They were there when he wiggled his hand. "They continue to view every small step as a very positive sign of hope," says Sister Jean Rhoads of Sacred Heart Children's Hospital, where the boy has been transferred. Rogers, Jessie's surgeon, says the boy will probably not regain full use of his arm. And his right thigh lost half of its mass during the attack, so he will probably require a brace to walk--if he can walk. Or if he ever wakes up to tell his part of a tale of a boy and a shark...
...this trip - as he runs through the various sultanates that existed in the 16th and 17th centuries, the various colonial dealings of the 18th and 19th and the upheavals of the 20th. Pulling out a tattered pink folder, leaning forward, he describes his ongoing campaign to regain for local Malays the right to cultivate land held by the government. Back in the sultanate days, it was called tanah ulayat, communal land, and that's what he thinks it should be now. His group is called People in Waiting. Opening the folder, he extracts clippings that describe its progress: demonstrations, occupations...
...failed to follow through. But even without a high-profile military operation, it is clear the situation on the ground in Chechnya has changed dramatically. It is no longer a case of how long the Russians will take to win, but how long the rebels will take to regain the initiative...