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Competing franchises have sprung up, but only one, Comfort Keepers, has expanded abroad. Besides, there's plenty of business to go around. Even in dismal 2008, the industry expanded. While some clients have trimmed hours in the downturn, new ones just keep coming. This wave of seniors seems unstoppable, says Sheila McMackin, president of the National Private Duty Association, an industry trade group. "I've never seen anything like...
...Efforts to enroll HIV-positive children in Vietnam's public schools have had dismal results. Even where teachers and local officials have gone door-to-door to educate parents, very few children have ever successfully been enrolled and actually attended. "Parents have their own arguments and it's hard to answer them," says Nguyen Van Chan, the beleaguered principal of An Nhon Dong Elementary School. "We all know how HIV is transmitted but who can give complete assurances?" he asks...
...College’s thousands of course listings as a perk of being a member of the Class of 2013. While the academic options at Harvard are indeed expansive, many of you will find your schedules restricted by the few introductory courses that serve as entries on your dismal pre-med checklist or pre-requisites for that tantalizing econometrics seminar you’d like to eventually take...
...been one constant amid the rumors swirling around the case: the North Koreans wanted a high-powered emissary to come from the U.S. to try to win the release of the prisoners - and, no doubt, listen to whatever else it was that Pyongyang had to say about the dismal state of relations between the two countries. For a while, speculation centered on former Vice President Al Gore, who in 2004 co-founded Current TV, the network the two journalists work for. But Gore's direct stake in the case put him in a complicated spot. Plus, there was another, arguably...
...that just 9% of American high school students use an in-class computer more than once a week. The cause of the decline in handwriting may lie not so much in computers as in standardized testing. The Federal Government's landmark 1983 report A Nation at Risk, on the dismal state of public education, ushered in a new era of standardized assessment that has intensified since the passage in 2002 of the No Child Left Behind Act. "In schools today, they're teaching to the tests," says Tamara Thornton, a University of Buffalo professor and the author of a history...