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...current crisis, the Clinton administration has done a good job prodding Indonesia along the road to peace in East Timor. Pressure from the U.S., Indonesia's second-largest trading partner after Japan, helped convince Habibie to agree to a referendum in the first place and to permit peacekeepers. It may again prove invaluable as the specifics of the UN mission are worked...
Joseph Cirasuolo, superintendent of schools in Wallingford, Conn., has seen the best and worst of home ed: "An excellent education, with computers plugged in," he says, and "horrible, with rote learning and outdated books." Teachers' groups, like the National Education Association, urge stricter regulation, but all 50 states now permit home schooling, with regulations ranging from degree requirements for parents in North Dakota to little or no oversight in Texas and Oklahoma...
...typical assisted-living unit rents for about $2,000 a month, meals and basic services included. And prices can go much higher. Furthermore, assisted-living communities are not medical facilities, so their costs are not covered by Medicare or Medicaid, though 32 states do permit the limited use of Medicaid funds for assisted living. No wonder, then, that the average assisted-care resident has an income of $26,000 annually, while the typical retiree...
...addition, the bill would permit private prepaid tuition plans to enjoy the same benefits as state prepaid plans--allowing families to accrue interest from investments tax-free...
Just what we needed -? more network television. Hacking away some regulatory tangles that dated back to television?s infancy, the FCC decided Thursday to permit a single company or network to own more than one station in a given market. In those media markets with sufficient "media voices" -? at least eight individually owned TV outlets and a nice mix of cable, newspapers and radio ?- the remaining stations are up for grabs. Meaning a network giant like Fox can now have another channel for all those "Cops" reruns that we?ve been dying...