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Even the system created in 1935, for all its strict federal rules, was never really unitary. Clinton notes that the basic monthly benefit for a welfare family ranged from $187 (in Mississippi) to $655 (in Vermont). But now, more than ever, there will be 50 separate systems. In fact more, since many states may, and should, permit variations from locality to locality...
...repeatedly about ending welfare as we know it--abandoning a system that focuses on eligibility and checkwriting in favor of one that encourages work at decent wages. On Tuesday, Congress sent the president a welfare reform bill that requires recipients to find jobs within two years and sets a strict five-year maximum for lifetime welfare receipt...
...Robert Kroon from Geneva: "China is more or less in line now with the rest of the world and theoretically, if we're lucky, this could be the last test blast in the world." It's a tantalizingly realistic hope. China has voiced reservations about the treaty's strict inspection language, but Beijing may well decide it's not worth risking the integrity of the carefully constructed document over the issue. Kroon notes that the current treaty was written during two years of sometimes tense negotiations, and has been carefully balanced to be acceptable to almost every party. Only India...
...Robert Kroon from Geneva: "China is more or less in line now with the rest of the world and theoretically, if we're lucky, this could be the last test blast in the world." It's a tantalizingly realistic hope. China has voiced reservations about the treaty's strict inspection language, but Beijing may well decide it's not worth risking the integrity of the carefully constructed document over the issue. Kroon notes that the current treaty was written during two years of sometimes tense negotiations, and has been carefully balanced to be acceptable to almost every party. Only India...
...unhappy, Amber's father says, it was with "normal teenage problems": she hated her curfew, balked at her chores and thought her parents were too strict. She had tried marijuana a few times, and her parents immediately sent her to drug counseling. "We didn't throw her in and say, 'Fix her,'" Hernandez says. "We all participated as a family." The day before her death, she proudly told a friend that she had not smoked pot in seven weeks...