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...Pakistani officials are also encouraged by the emergence of tribal militias who have turned on the Taliban. "We cleared them out of our area in a week," says Akhunzada Chettan, a lawmaker from a part of Bajaur, and there have been similar successes in Dir and, reportedly, Lakki Marwat. These developments are significant, officials say, because in the past the tribes had feared that the army would fail to protect them...
...senior health advisor, invoked the Democratic candidate’s assertion during the third presidential debate that “health care is a right, not a responsibility.” Blumenthal said that Obama’s proposal would create a government-subsidized plan for low-income families similar to the health care benefits given to federal employees...
Agenor also said she’d hoped the health care advisors would discuss America’s racial and socioeconomic health disparities. Salganicoff’s opening slides placed an emphasis on the underserved, while the debate did not address similar issues of health and equality, Agenor said...
...group of students, faculty and administrators also traveled to Yale and Princeton for a two-day tour of the colleges’ residential housing systems last weekend. Two other groups took similar tours last spring and summer...
...school administrators and finding that more than half indicated they were interested in this type of assessment. "There was significant demand for a gut check on students' reading, writing and math skills," he says. As opposed to other standardized tests, Jones explains, ReadiPrep examines college readiness based on criteria similar to those evaluated by the SAT. "And it needed to come earlier - we heard eighth grade is a critical year," he adds...