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...years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the most integrated schools in the U.S. are in the South. The most segregated are in New York and California. The federal courts--once the preferred tool of integrationists-- have become a major force in the resegregation of schools. And the formerly black-and-white issue of racial integration is more intricate--last year Latinos became the country's largest minority group...
Other Senators told the students that resumed testing was a necessary psychological tool in the cold war, but insisted that only the President is competent to decide the issue...
...Like a well-targeted attack-ad in a U.S. election campaign, the Abu Ghraib images make a visceral connection with an Arab audience, that no amount of contextualizing, apologies, reprimands or school-painting can reverse. No ad agency could have produced a more effective al-Qaeda recruitment tool: Bin Laden's movement presents its goal as the redemption of Muslim honor which has been "prostituted" before the West by "apostate" pro-U.S. regimes. Scenes of graphic humiliation of Muslims by American soldiers - women mocking the genitalia of naked men - will reinforce the appeal among the shamed young...
...Stem cell lines represent a central research tool for the 21st century,” he said...
Stronach, 37, has already cut a swath among the world's corporate elites. Magna, founded by her Austrian-immigrant father Frank in a rural Ontario tool-and-die shop, has offices in 22 countries and a global workforce of 75,000. But Stronach's philanthropic interests, which include running a national education foundation, took her beyond a focus on the bottom line. As she campaigned across Canada's vast distances this winter, some admirers were already comparing her to the young Margaret Thatcher. "She generated significantly more glamour than I could bring," conceded Stephen Harper, 45, the victor...