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...schools, which have diverted valuable resources from the city's public schools. Since Missouri instituted charter schools in 1999, roughly 4,300 students have enrolled in them, draining an estimated $18 million in state and local funding out of the Kansas City school system, and the district fears that sum could swell to $31 million if newly proposed charters are approved. The system reported $22 million in losses in '99, prompting the closings...
...looking to the past to gain wisdom, such approaches rub the public's wounds with the salt of past misdeeds, breeding mutual antagonism and hostility. While politics and race relations are thus contaminated, little progress can be made; cooperation to solve present problems is neglected in favor of zero-sum battles to exact compensation for yesterday's crimes...
...traffickers moved their crops to southern Colombia, which the government in Bogota had largely ceded to Marxist guerrillas. Then, improved refining techniques enabled traffickers to increase output. To combat the growers, the White House has asked for $1.6 billion in aid. For foreign aid, it's a staggering sum. If Congress approves the money--and Republicans there seem eager to--Colombia will become the third largest recipient of U.S. assistance, behind Israel and Egypt...
...Sum up America in maps and charts? Wurman wasn't daunted. With the help of 17 other designers, the creator of the innovative Access guides has produced a 324-page graphic snapshot that amounts to a candy-colored encyclopedia. His hefty paperback runs from the efficiently informative (what steps must be taken by a would-be President; how our land is used) to the chilling (Kit Hinrichs' bull's-eye chart with a family laid over it to dramatize the chance of being a casualty of war) to the inspiring (Tom Wood's bar graph of the factors contributing...
McGovern said he and his wife decided to donate the unprecedented sum of money because they believe neuroscience is at the cusp of major breakthroughs that the institute should be able to bring to fruition...