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...country's "classrooms, school playgrounds, hallways and bathrooms ... often become regular sites for violent episodes." In France, almost 13% of students say they've been the target of multiple bullying incidents, while the number of violent incidents in schools - including verbal attacks, fighting and theft, as well as bullying - rose from 72,000 during the 2002-03 school year to 81,000 one year later. In Germany, the percentage of pupils who say they've been involved in physical violence has doubled within a generation, from 5% in the 1970s to 10% today. "The threshold has been lowered substantially," says...
...label ranges and moved into higher-margin nonfood items such as electronics, housewares and clothing (with styles that actually make the fashion pages of mass-market women's magazines). That helped Tesco accomplish a simple but crucial task: getting bodies into the store. Tesco's British grocery market share rose to an estimated 22.9% in 2004, as onetime leader Sainsbury's stagnated at 12.1%, according to Verdict Research in London. "They don't do anything brilliantly, but they do everything well," Peter East, retail director of market-research firm TNS in London, says of Tesco...
...DIED. GENERAL SONG RENQIONG, 96, one of the "Eight Immortals" of the Chinese Communist Party, a group of powerful officials who set state policy in the 1980s; in Beijing. Song joined the party as a teenager and rose through the ranks to become a "remarkable proletarian revolutionary," as state news agency Xinhua called him. Following his appointment as a general in the People's Liberation Army in 1955, he served on the party's Central Committee and was admitted to the Beijing politburo in 1982. His death makes Bo Yibo, father of current Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, the last living...
Other career highlights, he says, include coaching in two Rose Bowls (1998 and 1999), both of which Wisconsin...
Coleman also said that as a result of the dollar’s weakness in international markets, the Library’s acquisition of materials abroad has become considerably more expensive. The cost of materials from Europe rose by 41 percent between 2000 and 2004, according to a June 2004 letter from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Library Committee to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...