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Education, of course, is the Texas Governor's policy home page--the place where the reformer really does have results, where he seems to speak from his heart and mind, not an invisible set of cue cards. Public schools in Texas have improved dramatically on Bush's watch. And although the structural reforms that made it happen were in place when Bush took office, he has built on them year after year. Black and Latino children have made galloping gains in math and reading scores during his years in office, narrowing the achievement gap that bedevils school systems around...
...than-monumental increase designed to stabilize prices at their current level. This new price plateau, says Robert Kaufmann, professor at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, will probably mean few broad-reaching economic ramifications. "Emphasis on 'probably,'" says Kaufmann. "We've seen these prices before, although not for so sustained a period. But in and of themselves, they won't create any adverse reactions." That sanguine attitude is due, in large part, to the general shift in the economy from oil-dependent heavy industry to high-tech business...
Passengers rarely present difficulties, although occasionally on Friday and Saturday nights, students returning from parties find the ride too jostling...
...Although many Quadlings say that their home is merely a 10-minute walk from Johnston Gate, they cite the shuttle service as an additional advantage...
Certainly, the win over Hobart was not a pretty one offensively. Although it scored eight times, the inexperienced Crimson attack couldn't muster anything out of its set offense. Instead it relied on goals out of loose ball or transition situations...