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...want. If all parents had the necessary resources and educational background, then home schooling might approach the equality-of-opportunity standard that characterizes our nation. It fails that simple test, and the smug, self-righteous superiority of home schoolers is not the stuff that makes a great people, regardless of the test scores. Get out in the community, and work to make your public schools better! Your attitude is intolerant and mean-spirited. LON C. THOMAS JR. High Point...
Between 6 and 7 p.m., a highly diverse crowd of more than 400 filled Mass. Ave. between Church and Garden Streets and a line of people extended down to Byerly Hall. Whether they were clad in business suits or blue jeans and regardless of their ethnicity or class, all clutched candles as they gathered in silence to encourage peace...
...Regardless of the New York Police Department’s checkered past, we must all now rally to the support of the courageous individuals who rushed to assist their fellow citizens—not only in New York, but also in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and nationwide. The hundreds of emergency personnel who lie dead beneath the World Trade Center are a testament to their bravery and generosity of spirit...
...show of environmental goodwill, the Chinese government recently earmarked $8.4 million for panda preservation. And researchers are proposing some creative ways to spend it. To perpetuate the 3 million-year-old species, a scientist suggested using bears or rabbits as surrogate mothers, while others raised the possibility of cloning. Regardless of the method, however, breeding pandas is tricky; of the 200 pandas born in captivity since the 1960s, less than half have made it to adulthood. Says Yu Changqing, panda program coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund in Beijing: "Our focus should be on increasing the number of pandas...
...point. Skepticism over the extent of the "rogue nation" threat and concerns that missile defense could spark a new arms race had most of Washington's NATO allies opposed to the scheme before the Bush administration took office. But when the U.S. made it clear it would forge ahead regardless of international opinion, the Europeans were pushed to begin debating not whether, but how a national missile defense system should be deployed. The Bush team clearly believes the same strategy will force the Russians to cut a deal, if for no other reason than that Moscow really has very...