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...next four years. Those trends, if they persist, will further erode revenues of a school system saddled with a $219 million budget deficit. So Bobb is trying to squeeze out the waste in the meantime, and he has built an investigative apparatus that has uncovered widespread corruption, including nearly 3,800 unauthorized dependents on employee health-insurance rolls. In the case of the ninth-grade dropout, the judge essentially followed Bobb's suggestion: the 19-year-old was ordered to spend up to 23 months in a boot camp and finish high school. (See pictures of Detroit schoolchildren...
...second proposal contained a more specific list of actions, including the creation of a Climate Emergency Response Board to coordinate city action and change Cambridge’s green infrastructure. After some modification, the measure also met widespread approval, with 40 votes in favor and 11 opposed...
...want," Georgopoulos says, adding that it also doesn't require dredging up the traumatic events that generate PTSD. "The whole thing takes literally a minute." It will be a lot longer, however, and require several follow-up studies, if the use of MEG to track PTSD is to become widespread...
...also led the country to the brink of a civilian uprising over her brash attempt to levy a hefty tax on the country's lucrative soy exports in 2008. The move, announced just prior to the commencement of the yearly harvest, enraged farmers and caused a revolt that enjoyed widespread popular support. Peace was restored only after a cliffhanger congressional vote against the proposed tax in which Vice President Cobos cast the deciding negative vote, saying he believed "national peace" was a higher priority than a new tax. That move earned him the undying enmity of Fernandez...
...hinders investigations into crimes committed by American servicemen and their families in South Korea. In 1998, the court dropped charges against Patterson, handing him an 18-month prison sentence for possessing an illegal weapon and destroying evidence, from which he was released early in 1999 as part of a widespread amnesty the government granted to 2000 convicts. The court found Lee guilty of murder, sentencing him to life in prison but later reduced the sentence to 20 years. In 1999, he was fully acquitted by the Supreme Court on a lack of evidence. (See pictures of Obama's visit...