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Since the late 1970s, when roughly 12,500 children were taught at home, the number has grown as high as half a million. It remains true that most parents who choose to withdraw their children from the school system, or never send them in the first place, do so for religious reasons, seeking to shape their children's learning in accordance with their spiritual values. In addition, there are still the hermits and occasional hatemongers, observes Joe Nathan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for School Change, "people who have made it clear that the reason they educate...
...besmirches Diana enough, he will be rinsed in the process. He and his advisers seem genuinely surprised that the public hasn't turned on her as her emotional storms are revealed. It seems lost on them that the princess's popularity is genuine, not something he can bestow or withdraw...
...didn't want to accept her doctor's diagnosis: repetitive strain injury (RSI) caused by too many long hours at the word processor. Neither did the company, which she says accused her of exaggerating her symptoms to get out of work. According to Halper, RCA managers demanded that she withdraw a workers' compensation claim and tell her caseworker that the injury wasn't job related after all. When she refused, says Halper, they began a campaign of intimidation and harassment. They moved her into a smaller office. They excluded her from meetings. They asked her to take a 40% salary...
...some way to secure victory without firing a shot, while ensuring that this time Saddam stays put for good. It has not been easy. On Saturday, the U.S. had to negotiate carefully to avoid a Russian veto before winning a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that Iraq withdraw its troops from the Kuwaiti border...
...should withdraw as soon as possible and let U.N. troops, predominantly from Caribbean nations, replace them," she says...