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...some tough losses, but we’re going to build upon them. Right now, we’ve been hitting the ball well, scoring some runs, but haven’t really been finishing games,” said junior captain and catcher Tyler Albright...
...Tough Job Market, Teens Are Suffering Most...
...increasingly interconnected via the Internet, the stakes have become too high to rely on static defenses alone to protect the immense flows of vital information that operate the world's financial, medical, governmental and infrastructure systems. "The bad guys already have the hacking technologies," Bavisi says. "We can say, 'Tough luck. The bad guys play by different rules, and you can't do anything about it, so just go lock your doors.' Or we can tell the good guys, 'We will arm you with the same knowledge as the bad guys, because to defeat the hacker you need...
...persistently failing schools. While the $4 billion federal Race to the Top competition, which began in 2009, gives states incentives to close schools after all other strategies to improve achievement have failed, Obama's new proposal is more ambiguous. It will permit states to shy away from making these tough choices - even though replacing failing schools can transform entire districts. In New York City, we've phased out more than 90 schools during the past seven years; these decisions haven't been politically popular, but the schools that replaced them have dramatically higher graduation rates than their predecessors...
...what did all this venting of spleen actually accomplish? Not much. Netanyahu apologized for the timing of the housing announcement, but then the Israelis declared they would proceed with the construction of the new homes in Jerusalem anyway - and even started taking bids for 300 more. The Administration's tough talk may have helped placate some Palestinians who believe the U.S. is too soft on Israel - but it didn't stop several hundred others from staging riots in East Jerusalem. That's not to say that the Obama team is wrong to object to settlement construction in East Jerusalem...