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...second major thrust of the act mandates the expansion of a subsidy fund, known as the Universal Service Fund...
...belly, which he knows to be more tender than the rest." In the 1830s, explorer James Edward Alexander described the following interaction between these two enemies: "When the elephant and the rhinoceros come together and are mutually enraged, the rhinoceros, avoiding the blow of the trunk and the thrust of the tusks, dashes at the elephant's belly and rips it up." PETER V. MINORSKY, Professor Department of Biology Union College Schenectady...
...betting on Edison, Vaughn thrust Wichita into the front ranks of a bold and still controversial experiment in privatizing public education. America's first four Edison schools opened in the fall of 1995 in Wichita; Boston; Mount Clemens, Mich.; and Sherman, Texas. Three years and nearly two dozen new schools later, the debate continues. Despite warnings that privatizing public education is a recipe in which profit takes precedence over learning, the Edison Project is beginning to attract more serious consideration. Most of Edison's schools (25 altogether) are still too new to show definitive results, but initial reports from pioneers...
...infiltrated its ranks. In 1995 journalist Donna Minkowitz went undercover on assignment for Ms. magazine to a Promise Keepers rally in St. Petersburg, Fla., disguised as a 16-year-old boy. She says that while the group is antigay and antiabortion, that is not the Promise Keepers' main thrust. "In some ways," she says, "I think they are changing men in a really good way that feminists would like. While some of their message is antifeminist and right wing, I think ignoring the good side doesn't do us a service...
...write a book that would locate itself at the interface of the real world and the searches that people and institutions launch to understand it." He admits that the writer, during the age he chronicles, has become "a marginal figure," reduced to "observing from the edge." Underworld should thrust DeLillo, whether he likes it or not, into the hot center...