Word: va
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...Chester, Va...
BRUCE HERBERT McLean, Va...
Joyce Thompson, 58, loves the weather in Tucson, Ariz. She would love to stay there year-round, but most of her extended family lives in Saltville, Va., where she grew up, and she's determined to spend at least three months a year there with her mother. What Thompson, a career nurse, needed--and found--was a job that would let her split her time between the two cities...
...when some 11,000 parents of disabled students asked for due-process hearings to try to get more services for their children. This year the Department of Education expects about 14,000 parents to request such a proceeding, which Peter Wright, a special-ed attorney in Deltaville, Va., likens to a cross between a nasty divorce and a medical-malpractice suit. Each side feels betrayed by the other, and each brings in a slew of expert witnesses. "The cases that are on the table tend to be really difficult, thorny questions," says Andrew Rotherham, co-director of the Washington think...
...Meredith Bergen, 17, felt she didn't need or want other options when she was accepted by Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., in August. The senior at Downingtown East High School in Downingtown, Pa., came upon the school by searching for desired attributes like size and selection of majors on the Princeton Review's web site. She took a tour of the campus-"just me and my mom and my sister and the tour guide"-and found it "beautiful" and "friendly...