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...About 700,000 students across the U.S. in grades 4 and 8 participated in NAEP reading and math exams, which were given last winter. The results show national trends, but also provide a window on how students in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., are doing. Since each state creates its own reading and math tests, NAEP provides a rare opportunity to compare, say, how kids are doing in Massachusetts (great) to how they are faring in the nation's capital (improved but still appalling...
...forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin. He faces other charges in Arizona and federal court. While this first case focused on the marriage of a young girl, many young boys' lives have been severely affected by the FLDS, and the Utah trial opened a window into their sad stories...
Regardless of the changes, the brand has a long way to go. The diminished chain that Baker inherited is a far cry from the powerhouse it was in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. The originator of the Christmas window and the first to hire a woman president and personal shoppers was once a showcase for high-end American designers?a tradition Baker hopes to revive. But when Lord & Taylor was bought by Associated Dry Goods in the late '70s, it lost its edge as a fashion leader. May Co.'s 1986 acquisition only contributed to their downward spiral. "Lord & Taylor...
...dollars they pump into corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs in the developing world. The U.S. drug industry says it has created 126 health partnerships with governments and aid organizations that have helped up to 539 million people since 2000. Some observers remain cynical, however. They say CSR is mere window dressing - a clinic here, an outreach program there - that does not address the root problem of how to get drugs to the broadest number of people who need them most...
...Iraqis this is all infuriatingly irrelevant. They look at Blackwater as trigger-happy mercenaries, and Iraqis don't want any armed foreign security contractors in their country. Do we let Iraqi embassy private security contractors race around Washington or New York, machine guns sticking out the window, to prevent carjackings...