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Gates and his wife decided to launch the program after Gray took them on a tour of schools and libraries in Alabama. "They saw the needs facing minority students," says Patty Stonesifer, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "The No. 1 issue time and time again was cost...
...took years for Oregonians to settle the prickly question of whether doctors should be able to help people kill themselves. But a majority of the state's voters made clear--twice--that they favor physician-assisted suicides, at least in the limited cases of terminally ill people expected to live less than six months...
MAKE NICE School violence is a concern of all parents, yet a major study released last week by the National Center for Children in Poverty confirms that there might be a possible solution to at least part of the problem. Students in Grades 2 through 6 who took part in a violence-resolution program--and learned to solve disagreements with words instead of fists--ended up being less hostile. This channeling of anger had one additional benefit. Those who took the classes often did better academically than those...
...then the hurricane took that sudden turn. The bad weather started pounding us Tuesday night. Waves were completely covering the boat, and we were pitching 46[degrees]. By early Wednesday, it started getting really bad. We were in seas of 45-to-55-plus ft., much bigger than anything I'd ever seen. We began getting into real trouble about 3 in the morning, when we started taking on water at the rudder assembly faster than our pumps could keep...
...three of us on board--David Lytle, Tim Chambers and me. We knew we had to get in the water or we'd get sucked under with the boat. To be honest, I was scared to death. We had life jackets on and life rings, but the life rings took off when we jumped, about 15 ft. into the water from the port side. We grabbed a broomstick to stay together and tried to paddle toward the raft, which was 300 yds. away. It was obvious that wouldn't work, and we knew we had to conserve our energy. Unlike...