Word: suburbanitis
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...story, including a group that flew some amputees to the U.S. for treatment. And a wealthy businessman, after reading our AIDS-orphans story, written by Nairobi bureau chief Simon Robinson, plucked some of the children from the hellhole where they were living and relocated them to a house in suburban Harare, Zimbabwe. For people residing in the world's worst places, that kind of generous help is as close to a miracle as anything they could...
Even more troubling is the fact that minorities and urban school districts fared much more poorly on the test than their more wealthy, suburban counterparts. In Boston, 59 percent of the regular education students who took the sophomore math test failed. Another 10 percent didn't even come to school. The numbers get worse when you include students with learning disabilities and limited English proficient students, all of whom will also be required to pass the test in order to graduate. Only two percent of Boston sophomores with disabilities and a miniscule one percent of students with limited English proficiency...
...depository, then, which shares a suburban tract of land 30 miles from the Yard with the Harvard Medical School's New England Primate Research Center, is essentially a retirement home for books that haven't been checked out for several years...
...result of his program, "more of the minority students who did attend selective schools would be from low income segregated backgrounds and fewer from integrated and suburban schools," according to Gary A. Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy at Harvard...
...should be geared toward states rather than the federal government, for both strategic and legal reasons. "The general feeling of people who want control of guns has been to attack it as a national problem," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, who notes that states with larger urban and suburban populations are generally in favor of tighter gun regulation. "Seeing as how Congress is not going to do anything, gun control advocates believe they'll have a better chance at the state level. At the same time, more and more gun control advocates are starting to realize that the Second...