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...Athens, Ga., environmentalists plan to stage a "Day of Action" by picketing Home Depot, the mammoth building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
...people called him a tool...
However, Steve Case, chair and CEO of AmericaOnline, which is donating services to help makethe Web White & Blue project possible, stressedthe value of the Web as a tool for voters...
...tiny (pop: 27,000) farm community, about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, decided to integrate its college-prep and "general" education students so that slow, average and accelerated learners would sit side by side. It is a bold experiment. Segregating students by ability--a vintage classroom organizational tool known as "tracking" or "ability grouping"--is practiced in at least 80% of U.S. high schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But in Santa Paula, anger at the grouping system had smoldered for decades. "This is a small town that's been run the same way forever," says...
...have to be convinced of the quality," said Dean K. Whitla, a lecturer on education at the Graduate School of Education. "Automation certainly can help, but it has to be seen as a tool...It shouldn't dominate [students'] lives...