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This hopeful bit of chauvinism would come as a surprise in Arkansas, where in the past year 35,000 of the state's 45,000 certified teachers have been subjected to a math, reading and writing exam. Some 10% have flunked, and anger at the testing process has been a...
Stumpf wants the best parts of childhood made available again, the mixture of surprise and ritual, comfort and wonder. Images of his own youth in a polyglot St. Louis neighborhood pop up again and again in his conversations about design. "I used to crawl behind the radio," says Stumpf, son...
ABC's belt tightening has come as no surprise to industry watchers. Capital Cities, a successful owner of magazines, newspapers and broadcasting stations, is known for running lean, and extremely profitable, operations. ABC, meanwhile, has been floundering financially. As NBC last week celebrated its first victory ever in Nielsen's...
Gorbachev's gambit of reading off a new set of Soviet ideas and proposals caught Reagan by surprise. In Geneva, Gorbachev had spoken off the cuff; by reading from a long paper this time, he gave the impression that he was following detailed guidelines worked out within the Politburo. At...
Since 1980 the Soviet buildup has continued. Today the number of warheads (missiles plus bombs) in the U.S. and Soviet strategic forces is approximately equal. For 35 years, from 1950 to 1985, the Soviets lived with numerical inferiority, although "parity" in operational terms has existed since at least October 1962...