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...teacher-certification exam or the schools would risk losing accreditation; 35 of the state's 86 colleges are now on probation. Says Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, "Few Governors have been willing to test as much as he has. Texas is well on its way toward real accountability and real reform, and that movement wasn't there before Bush was Governor. He's at the top of a small pack of Governors...
...Carville is James Carville, Zell Miller is retiring as Georgia Governor with an 80% approval rating, and the lottery is being hailed as the secret to the Democratic Party's astonishing rebirth in the South. Last week in Alabama and South Carolina, two states that had been trending hard toward the G.O.P., Democrats ousted sitting Republican Governors by single-mindedly pledging to follow Georgia into the scratch-and-win business. Political consultants predict the issue will dominate next year's legislative session in Tennessee and the Governor's race in North Carolina in the year...
...federal water surges toward their fields, the farmers generate hydroelectric power with it, which they then sell at market rates and pocket the profit. In Washington State, farmers in the Columbia Basin have built seven such plants, which now generate about 500 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, enough to supply power to 50,000 American homes for a year. The electricity is sold to the cities of Seattle and Tacoma and so far has produced nearly $10 million in income since the first plant went on line...
Indeed, that is the situation this month. Tempel-Tuttle recently swept past Earth, swinging around the sun in February, and headed back toward the outer solar system. As a result, Earth will come within 700,000 miles of the center of the stream--a close shave by astronomical standards. And because Tempel-Tuttle orbits the sun in the opposite direction of Earth, the meteoroids will hurtle in at a closing speed of some 160,000 m.p.h...
...Allen traces Lee's and Robin's parallel courses toward opposite fates, Celebrity, even though it is shot in austere black and white on palpably real locations, turns into something new for him: an epic. It contains 242 speaking parts and 5,128 extras--forces sufficient, if deployed in a different context, to make a biblical spectacle. Or--better comparison--a screen version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair or some other satirical, multilayered saga of halfway decent, halfway desperate people trying to make their way in a corrupt society...