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Perhaps the more pressing problem is that hukous help perpetuate the imperviousness of the rich-poor divide. As is the case anywhere in the world, the poor are stuck in the catch-22 income-education cycle: the only way for them to break out of low-paying jobs is to get an education, but the only way to get an education is with money. Hukous exacerbate the problem by forcing those without them to pay a steeper price for tuition. For example, in the typical city of Fenghua, rural hukou-holders pay almost three times more for education than hukou...
Located 30 miles west of Cambridge, Oak Ridge’s 61-inch-wide Wyeth telescope has a rich history. It was used to discover the first potential planet orbiting a star outside the solar system, and has been used regularly by undergraduates for research. Although it is currently the largest telescope in the country east of Texas, the Oak Hill technology doesn’t measure up to newer models, which have gotten progressively larger and more powerful. Its closure reflects plans to bring the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics’ (CFA) international battery of telescopes...
Those who champion middle schools, however, say that done right, such schools offer leadership opportunities, a caring environment plus a rich variety of courses, facilities and subject-matter specialists that K-8s can't begin to match. Fritsche, for instance, not only has its elaborate program in the arts but also offers an extensive library, a graphics and electronics lab, three gymnasiums and many extracurriculars. While the best of Milwaukee's K-8 schools have adopted such middle school features as lockers, science labs, changing classes throughout the day, they can't equal a program like Fritsche's. At Humboldt...
...middle-class Pakistanis are left with only ruined hopes. In the wake of rising inflation, a lackluster job market and stagnant salaries, a salaried worker can never think of buying an apartment or a modest house in his lifetime. Millions will have to forgo that dream. The gap between rich and poor is reaching dangerous proportions. It is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The government has simply not awakened to the plight of its people. Mehmood Aziz Karachi...
...confidentiality of its reporter's sources. Still, I applaud Pearlstine for making the principled decision to follow the rule of law, much as he believes the law should be different. We don't have to like laws, orders or rulings. But unless we are anarchists, we should follow them. Rich McLeod Kansas City, Missouri...