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...behind them) have shot up 67%, compared with a 42% seasonal rise for "pure-play" merchants (which exist only online, like Amazon.com) Walmart.com alone is gaining 80% more cybershoppers every week. Incoming CEO Jeanne Jackson raised eyebrows when she closed the site for renovations two months ago. Now the revamp is paying off. "We're just starting to figure out how this functions," she says. "It's barely Round...
...local issue; school committees around the nation have a great deal of control over their curricula, teaching styles and extracurricular activities. As a result, the decisions made by local school committees are one of the most important influences on the lives of students. The choice to drop a course, revamp a schedule, cut a budget or add an after-school activity can have a huge impact on students' daily lives...
...become too insular, the students crafted their suggestions from two open meetings. Then, at a breakfast attended by more than 40 students, Travis F. Batty '02 and Francisco J. Flores '02, senior IOP associates, presented Pryor with their ideas: hold democratic elections, create meritocratic membership standards and revamp the structure of committees and leadership positions...
...laws that have followed. Shalala, talking about the long wait, says, "We were not after the quick political hit here. This is not a spin operation. This is a very sophisticated, thoughtful set of regulations that are realistic for the states." Her department, nevertheless, missed congressional deadlines to revamp the child welfare-monitoring system by two years. The ostensible reason: it wanted to produce thoughtful social policy that would lead to the "most sweeping reform of foster care in 20 years...
Public schools should respond to the desires of the majority of parents and revamp their sex education curriculum. This would be a great help to parents who are feeling overwhelmed and can't find the time to talk to their children about these issues or parents who are too uncomfortable with the topic...