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...review work. Economically disadvantaged students, whose learning is often not reinforced in their homes or in their communities, forget much more each summer. Research shows the economically disadvantaged suffer about two months of learning loss, vs. one month for better-off students. This phenomenon recurs summer after summer. Shorter summers could reduce this gap while raising the achievement of all students, including those at the top. This would be no mean feat...
...White House counsel's office under Republican Presidents. Gingrich hopes their experience will prove valuable to an investigation that involves complex legal haggling with Clinton's counsel, Charles Ruff. But the Speaker's real goal, says a close adviser, is "to encircle" the chairman and "put him on a shorter leash." The leadership has added to its leverage by setting aside much of the money Burton requested for his committee in a "reserve fund." "We only gave him money for this year," says a leadership aide. "That way, if he tanks, we can pull the plug...
Stansky: I'm not counting on a very smooth environment, or straight up or straight down. You get a lot of people with a shorter trigger these days. It's not like you can go in and buy every stock and just wait until you hit the right price, where your only risk is time. The stocks that come up short in performance numbers, at least in the near term, are the stocks that get hit very hard and very quickly...
...could have finished off Xena and Hercules; he loved as viscerally as anyone on Melrose Place--and his skirts were shorter than Heather Locklear's. He is Tarzan, ape-reared jungle king, the subject of more than 90 books, 40 movies and three TV series. Beginning on June 6 with a new documentary, Investigating Tarzan, AMC will showcase 32 of the films for three nonstop days and nights. They range from the 1918 Tarzan of the Apes through the Johnny Weissmuller vehicles of the 1930s and '40s (see our loinclothed hero beat up Nazis!) to the James Bondian takes...
...requires little more than an attitude adjustment. The Sears, Roebuck 1996 Work Force report showed that the average cost to the company for such accommodation in 1993-95 was zero. Employees with a learning disability were permitted to work at a slower pace; those with mental illness were offered shorter shifts, lower-stress duties or flexible work hours. According to studies conducted by the Matrix Research Institute in Philadelphia, which specializes in mental-health disorders, the majority of accommodations cost less than $500 per affected worker--significantly less than it costs to replace a worker...