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...send to Iraq, or anywhere else. Partly to ensure that an overstretched military doesn't break, Mullen pleased troops in North Carolina on Monday when he told them that the Pentagon soon may begin replacing its Cold War-era assignments to South Korea - one-year tours without family - with three-year deployments with families...
...them to stay with us during these very challenging times?" Army Secretary Pete Geren wondered aloud to military bloggers on March 26. At least part of the answer is money: The Army is doubling what it spends to take care of families, he said. The Pentagon is experimenting with three-year sabbaticals - including health benefits, but no pay - for personnel desiring a break in their military service. Other family-friendly measures include letting family members tap into their soldier's unused GI Education Bill benefits, giving military spouses hiring preferences for Federal jobs, and improving military daycare. "Not only...
...hire over 40 new bilingual teachers in the next five years. Although they are eager for applicants, the decision process is far from indiscriminate: Teachers must have past educational experience in Puerto Rico as well as the willingness to commit to a master’s degree and a three-year contract. Despite the need for bilingual education, recruiting teachers should not be considered a cure-all for the persistent achievement gap. Many disparities in educational achievement are attributable not only to linguistic differences but to socioeconomic ones. A 2004 study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard reported that...
...could ever accuse Rita Mae Brown, 63, of having lived a boring life. The bestselling author of 37 books is nothing if not versatile: feminist activist, mystery writer, lesbian pioneer, fox hunter, screenwriter, novelist, animal rescuer. She even became a tabloid star during her three-year relationship with tennis superstar Martina Navratilova. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Brown, who was in Pennsylvania on tour for her latest book, The Purrfect Murder (Bantam...
...choice of the 69-year-old registered independent as his top envoy at Catholic Church headquarters - following a pair of prominent Republican fund raisers in the post - is a clear nod to the cerebral leanings of the man in charge of the Holy See. Pope Benedict XVI's nearly three-year reign has been marked by his intellectual explorations and probing writings about how a timeless faith intersects with contemporary life...