Word: showing
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Mirza Tanovic is the avuncular, mustachioed host of "My Home," a half-hour show on Bosnian television. In plaid shirt and flak jacket, he tells viewers how to fix up their houses after years of war damage, offering tips on repairing bullet holes and replastering walls to disguise shrapnel scars...
Viewers, often refugees returning to what is left of their homes with little money, also learn how to dry out dwellings after the roof has been blown off. And stay tuned for next week's spring-summer show: how to replant after de-mining has churned up your garden. Broadcast from Sarajevo with help from the nonprofit Internews, the show has attracted sponsors from the building industry, one of the few growth sectors in the region. Next market, Belgrade...
...gunmakers, who were willing to support Clinton proposals like raising the minimum age for buying a gun to 21. After that, the N.R.A. found itself embarrassed when its point man in the Senate, Larry Craig, steered his G.O.P. colleagues onto the rocks during the battle over the gun-show amendment...
...N.R.A.'s recipient list as it distributed $1.63 million in all, with an additional $350,000 in soft money going to the Republican Party. So House members aren't thrilled to be jumping into a gun-control debate. The same day the Senate was voting on the gun-show provision, House Republican leaders canceled a markup of an important spending bill after Democrats made it known they would offer gun-control amendments...
...smaller-school movement is already well under way in Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles, which in recent years have opened high schools with student populations of 500 or fewer--in some cases splitting existing campuses into several "schools within a school." Studies show that students make better grades in smaller schools. They are less likely to be involved in fights or gangs because they know someone is always watching. They are less embarrassed to discuss problems with teachers. They have better attendance, lower dropout rates and more participation in extracurricular activities. "It doesn't matter what category...