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...It’s bad for education. We’ve abandoned real education for basically test prep and gate keeping,” said Larry W. Ward, father of three children in the Cambridge public school system...
...Hoping to ward off criticism of the government?s response to the infections, acting New Jersey Governor Donald DiFrancesco ordered anthrax testing at 44 mail facilities in seven counties, even though some of the mail centers have already been tested...
...suite at the top of the Ritz Carlton, he chose instead to make his way down to the one in the healthclub. Little gets in the way of the fitness obsessed president's workouts which he and his aides credit with helping him stay measured through the crisis. To ward off jet lag from the trip, Bush had hopped on the tread mill aboard Air Force One on the way over and sprinted at a brisk 400 miles an hour while he flew over the Pacific Ocean. By the time Bush huddled with aides to discuss what he would...
...peaceful again in my lifetime?only God knows," says Ahmed Shah, who left his village of Bachkot in Nangarhar a year ago. The despondency is widespread. Farras has a constant cough, a runny nose and an open sore on his cheek. His mother puts kohl around his eyes to ward off bad spirits?they cannot afford medicine. Neither Farras nor any of his 10 brothers have gone to school?there is no school in their village and, like their father, they will likely be illiterate all their lives. Farras has never had any toys?at home the ruling Taliban banned...
...lost her father to cancer at an early age. During her freshman and sophomore years at Harvard, she volunteered her time in the bone-marrow transplant ward at Children’s Hospital, and near the end of that second year she found herself moved up to the inpatient cancer floor. She noticed a difference right away. This wasn’t bone-marrow transplantation, where her patients were already in the process of recovering and some day soon were going to be just fine...