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...team of researchers from Indiana University that evaluated the program for the state of Ohio last fall found that vouchers were a mixed bag. Students attended classes that were, on average, smaller by three students. On the other hand, public schools had teachers with better credentials. They were more likely to have done postcollege work and had an average of five more years of teaching experience. In the end, the researchers concluded, class size and teacher qualifications canceled each other...
...impartiality of the researchers to the conditions under which the fourth-graders were tested. Lydia Harris, a reading specialist at Hope Central Academy, says the examiners who came to the school "didn't have a clue," and administered the test during children's nap time. She also suspects the State Department of Education, which commissioned the study, may have wanted vouchers to come off badly because its bureaucratic inertia makes it resist systemic reforms like vouchers. Even the study's authors concede their results don't necessarily discredit vouchers. They note that the small edge displayed by voucher students...
PAMELA ANDERSON LEE is best known for three things: videotaping her honeymoon and having large breasts. But last week, Lee's spokeswoman confirmed that the remarkably cantilevered actress had her breast implants removed. "She wanted her body to go back to its natural state," said Marleah Leslie. She stressed that Lee is unconcerned that the move may negatively affect her career, founded on Playboy pictorials and a role on Baywatch. It seems that interest in Lee's breasts does remain high. Ripley's Believe It or Not has requested the orphaned implants for an exhibit on beauty...
...even hint at how he would get these big things done. ("Come fall, we'll be making a series of major proposals," he says.) For now, at least, people don't seem to mind. His call for reform has helped establish a beachhead in New Hampshire, a contrarian state famous for punishing front runners and lifting underdogs. Gore has the state's top 100 Democrats more or less locked up; after that, most folks are up for grabs. Some 400 have joined Bradley's New Hampshire campaign, and his events around the state draw full houses, though...
...pointed a gun at her and told her to "open the f______ drawer." The experience is with her every night at the restaurant. "You know, people say they were kids, or they weren't really going to shoot, or whatever," Hartley says. "But they were in a very violent state of mind, screaming, just all over the place. They wanted everyone to think they would hurt them. And we did. I want them to think about that." They will have years...