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Also troubling is the financial cost to schools when the beverage spigot is partly closed. The deals that administrators strike with drinkmakers often go to pay for such comparative luxuries as athletic programs and yearbooks; if the kids don't take to the healthier drinks, revenue will fall. For Brainard High School in Chattanooga, Tenn., vending-machine sales have meant an annual cash infusion of as much as $17,000. "I think the deal will hurt us," says school bookkeeper Robin Cavin. "We pay the insurance for athletics out of that. Who will replace it when it's gone...
...profound disability to milder forms like Asperger syndrome, in which intellectual ability is generally high but social awareness is low. Indeed, doctors now prefer the term Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). But scientists suspect there are also distinct subtypes, including an early-onset type and a regressive type that can strike as late...
...summit this July in St. Petersburg. Especially in this context, the West must remember that nothing has really changed since the times of either Peter the Great or Lenin: Russia cares about its pride, not about global security. Amidst the rhetorical battle on the prospects of an American strike, Iran remains the world’s most delicate international crisis. An American-induced Security Council bill to curtail Teheran’s nuclear ambitions will inexorably fail due to implicit opposition from Beijing and Moscow. For China, it is primarily about oil thirst. But for Russia, it is about weapons...
...Kavanaugh, the White House Staff Secretary, to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court in the land. Kavanaugh, a 38-year-old GOP veteran who worked for Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr, faces a possible filibuster. And Washington State's Supreme Court may soon strike down the state's marriage statute as discriminatory - making it the second state, after Massachusetts, to legalize gay marriage. Since Washington has no marriage residency requirement, one conservative activist dubs such a ruling "Massachusetts on steroids...
...single from Brown—the only Crimson player to log two hits—in the second, the Terriers answered with four runs in their half off starting pitcher Hampton Foushee. Northeastern rapped out sharp line drives on the balls Foushee left up in the strike zone, posting five of its 12 hits on the day. Despite Foushee’s inconsistent outing, the pitching on the whole was a plus for the squad. “It was kind of a staff day,” Bruton said. “You build off the guy that?...