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...Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works...
...shown interest in, as they say, more "integrated" forms of product-plugging. Some news sites sell companies "sponsored content" mentioning their products, while independent blogs collect payoffs for posts - positive ones only, please - about merchandise. (Where did I learn about that? From the New York Times, which had to report the story without sponsorship from Healthy Choice...
Educators have been eyeing more class time for decades. The landmark 1983 federal report A Nation at Risk, which highlighted the growing achievement gap between the U.S. and other countries, recommended that school districts "strongly consider" a seven-hour day and a 200- to 220-day academic year, which would hew more closely to the schedules in higher-performing Europe and Asia. Although the practice has yet to go mainstream, there's a big push to add school hours in underperforming urban districts. One champion of this movement is Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who on July 8 introduced the Time...
While Whalen has not publicly commented on Gates' arrest thus far, her lawyer said in a phone interview with the Boston Globe this past weekend that her client was "personally devastated" by media reports suggesting that she was prompted to call police because the men were black. Police reports of the incident state that Whalen saw "what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the front porch" trying to break into the home, but Police Commissioner Robert C. Haas told the Globe that the report was a summary based on information and inquiries not necessarily compiled from...
...reports in question were sparked by remarks Xie had made to the official media that appeared to point to a policy shift designed to address the drain that Shanghai's aging population could have on the city's economy. "We advocate eligible couples to have two kids because it can help reduce the proportion of the aging people and alleviate a workforce shortage in the future," Xie, who is director of the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission, was quoted as saying. The report also stated that family-planning officials and volunteers would begin to make home visits and slip...