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...voters in California and Michigan overwhelmingly defeated voucher propositions by a margin of 2-to-1, despite a $30 million pro-voucher campaign spearheaded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper. In Washington, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Colorado and Arizona, voters approved significant spending increases for public schools, another signal that the public isn?t convinced of vouchers? potency...
...Before the election, everybody wondered if the choppy markets would signal to voters the end of the Clinton-Gore boom. Now that NASDAQ is in a whole new bearish paradigm, with no numerical reason to stop falling, will the politicians take notice...
...reappearance of the Ebola virus does not signal such a need. Rather, it is warning us that we ignore the essential public health needs of the world's poorest nations at our own peril. Unless the wealthy world is prepared to assist in the development of strong infrastructures in the poor world, microbial diseases will remain a threat to us all. Investment need not be prohibitively massive. The good news is that most public health interventions are pretty cheap, and highly cost-effective...
...lies in reflex, often in desperate circumstances. A number of years ago, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine in Paris, was felled by a stroke so destructive that the only part of his body that could move was his left eyelid. Flicking that eyelid, he managed to signal the letters of the alphabet, and proceeded to write his autobiography, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, with the last grand gesture of his life...
...current violence, rioters pelted police with stones at Jerusalem's Gate of the Tribes, which leads to the Temple Mount, after Friday prayers. A moustarabine unit of 10 officers, their faces shrouded by kaffiyehs, joined in the rioting with cries of "Allahu akbar!" (God is most great). At a signal, they threw percussion grenades and nabbed the leaders of the riot...