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...Australia's history have been bold enough to orchestrate a sharp turn in school funding policy. In 1880, when less than a third of New South Wales children received schooling, the state's premier, Henry Parkes, pushed through the Public Instruction Act, establishing free, secular and compulsory education. Grand stuff; but by simultaneously withdrawing all aid from denominational schools, Parkes caused almost a century of community division...
Everywhere you look, St. Louis’s hip hop scene has become politicized. “People always put political stuff in their lyrics,” says Tef. “The difference is that now people are bloodthirsty for that kind of stuff...
Though most, if not all, of the Crimson’s nine draft picks have imagined scoring a game-winning goal in a Stanley Cup Final since they first laced up their skates, their initial inklings were the stuff of pure fantasy, detached from any real sense of what it meant to be a professional athlete. Now just one or two steps away from the realization of those adolescent reveries—years removed from those first practice runs in local rinks and on suburban streets—there can be no illusions about what life as a hockey player...
...might guess, young women are driving the decoration trend, but that's not to say that guys are immune, especially when it comes to gadgets and electronics. Kyle Bixenmann, 19, a sophomore at the University of Denver, loaded up on what he calls "space-saver stuff" ("If you don't have crates, you don't have anything"). He also purchased dishes, pots, pans, a 25-in. TV and a PlayStation2. But once Bixenmann was on campus, what really caught his eye was another student's stiletto-shoe-shaped chair. But he drew the line at another's espresso maker...
...event--just like Christmas, Halloween or Mother's Day--retailers are redefining what going to college means. Penny-pinching is out; buying cucumber-scented drawer liners is in. In other words, the dorm section at Target may be packed with everything students need, but it also has tons of stuff they don't know they need until they see it. "It's a huge, untapped market that many retailers ignored for years," says National Retail Federation spokeswoman Ellen Tolley. Nothing like making up for lost time...