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...seems like only a few months ago that the federal budget surplus was unfurling like a vast, star-spangled security blanket, a cushion of cash that stretched farther than the eye could see. Wait. It was only a few months ago. In April the White House projected a surplus of $281 billion for this fiscal year and $3.4 trillion for the next 10 years--enough to fund Bush's tax cuts and Congress's spending programs, missile defense and school reform, private Social Security investment accounts and a prescription-drug benefit for seniors, with a ton of money left over...
...Comics Journal," America's only magazine dedicated exclusively to the advancement of comix as an art form, has just turned twenty-five years old, to the disgust of the vast majority of comicbook readers and the indifference of everyone else. Too bad. The "Journal" stands out as the only comix-related periodical worth reading, if you can read...
Lauren Artress, an Episcopal priest at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, founded the modern U.S. labyrinth movement after discovering this quiet pleasure during a retreat in New Jersey in 1991. "We have a vast spiritual hunger in the West," she says, "and labyrinths are a tool for centering...
While she said that she has experienced some problems as a woman in science, the vast majority of her experiences have been positive. The presence of women in senior positions at Cornell, where she went to graduate school, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she began her academic career “made a big difference,” she said...
...good will it do if we attract scores of new teachers only to have them leave one or two years later? That?s why many in the educational establishment criticize Teach For America: its graduates are required to stay in their schools for two years, but after that, the vast majority leave. In the years that follow, however, something unexpected has happened: more and more of these graduates at some point in their lives are returning to education, often as administrators...