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Every state likes to trot out its welfare-to-work successes, but Minnesota has more than most. Last week a comprehensive evaluation of the state's unique approach to welfare reform--an initiative that requires recipients to work but initially subsidizes them--showed impressive results. Since the state's reform went into effect in 1994, employment among welfare recipients swelled 35%, and other measures of well-being--from marriage rates to school success--also improved...
...game today," "We were able to execute," "We had a lot of positive team energy," or the chestnut so moldy it was banned from the Crimson sports page--"It was a real hard-fought win." As Red Sox manager Jimy Williams is fond of saying about his favorites, "Trot Nixon, he's a real baseball player." And so on ad nauseam...
...cottages surround an indoor courtyard where heftier hounds can trot on a treadmill and quieter pups can cluster for story time and a snack. An outside yard has a pool and an agility course with hoops, tunnels and a slalom run. You can request custom packages that include a Yappy Hour with gourmet biscuits or outdoor picnics for your dog and a few closest pals. "When we pick him up, he never wants to leave," says Stephanie Ruthberg, 11, of Beau, her family's Bouvier des Flandres. "He thinks of it as camp, so when we go away...
...always work. Peters pours the charm on Dongxia, but she already has a better offer: running her own lab for a research company that would start her at $80,000 a year. Still, all is not lost for the agency. Alan, the biomedicine student, is hot to trot, and there are more where he came from...
...standards of behavior which Alliance High requires would lead to armed rebellion in the average U.S. school. "We had to run to class," Thairu said. "Jog, trot. Faster than just walking. Our society expects it." For Americans, high school corporal punishment is just a Hollywood cliche of injustice, evil and sadism, as Maasdorp points out. "The only time most Americans encounter corporal punishment is in books and movies, and in most of these cases examples of corporal punishment being used unfairly are given," he said in an e-mail. "So I feel that people see it as an unfair abusive...