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Throughout his career in public service, Bachrach has been an articulate proponent of increasing education spending to repair crumbling schools, lower class size and fund programs for three- and four-year-olds to start school early...
Finally, in his advertising campaign, Bachrach has revealed a refreshingly self-deprecating sense of humor. In one ad promoting small class size, he stands in front of 40 screaming children and attempts to teach amid flying erasers and paper airplanes. The conclusion? He can't teach such a crowded group, but he will work for improved education funding in Congress...
...other hand, Radcliffe would not want toenter an agreement that would challenge its claimto its now $170 million endowment--sizable for aninstitution of its size...
...million miles away, cost $1 billion, and for more than two years has surveyed the sun with spectacular results. This cosmic overachiever--about the size of a Volkswagen beetle--is the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, otherwise known as SOHO. Since April 1996 it has beamed back hundreds of thousands of remarkable images of solar eruptions and made dozens of scientific discoveries. It has also enhanced the ability of astronomers to predict and spot the powerful solar storms that produce auroras and cause power disruptions on Earth--as well as endanger satellites and astronauts in space...
...Which, according to TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, is another baby step in the right direction. "This is the beginning of a strategy of bite-size pieces of apology from Clinton, rather than another major speech," says Branegan. "Admitting fault and personal guilt is not his strength." But after eating humble pie with top Democrats Wednesday morning -- and getting a positive reaction -- the President has apparently decided to take his contrition show on the road. And not a moment too soon. Once Congress starts sifting through a ton of material relating to his private foibles, Clinton may have...