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...critic provocateur and lifelong political carpetbagger, having held key posts in the Italian Cultural Ministry and Milan city council - is now mayor of the small Sicilian town of Salemi, which is trying to make its mark on the map as a major wine-producing region. "We have to teach young people to drink Italian wine," Sgarbi declared to the AGI news agency last week. "If there's something to ban, it's Coca-Cola, Fanta and other disgusting [products]. I invite all young people to Salemi where they can drink freely." (See 50 essential travel tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Starts Cracking Down on Underage Drinking | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...That'll Teach 'Em 1988 Proposition 98 allocates roughly 40% of the state budget to education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: California's Budget Crisis | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...like Nabokov’s, and he likes to prick the imagination with unexpected words and fantastic metaphors. His transition from Spanish to English has improbably recreated the early twentieth-century’s revolution in consciousness—he writes unpunctuated streams to rival James Joyce. When I teach him grammar, I provide dashes and colons to preserve his extraordinary phrasing...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Personal Statements | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...personal responsibility premised on the belief that in America, hope is audacious and anything is possible. Speaking at the NAACP last week, he told African-Americans, “Your destiny is in your hands—you cannot forget that. That’s what we have to teach all of our children. No excuses...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Professor, the Policeman, and the President | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...wouldn't know from looking at the bill that it took four years of negotiation and accommodation to produce this version. Aside from its support for contraception, none of the new or expanded initiatives it contains are terribly controversial: a national campaign to teach parents how to talk to their kids about sex, efforts to educate the public about adoption, home nurse visits for low-income mothers, expanded postpartum Medicaid coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Common Ground on an Abortion Bill | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

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