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Fetching water seems a mundane job--unless you're in the midst of a genocide. In a new online video game at DarfurIsDying.com players take the role of Darfuris and must complete basic tasks. Those who fail to do so learn what fate could befall them at the hands of Janjaweed militias: rape, kidnapping, murder. Susana Ruiz, a University of Southern California student who helped design the game, which is backed by college channel mtvU, hopes it will inspire players to take real-world action by writing President Bush or lobbying schools to divest holdings in firms that operate...
...learned that "my biggest mistake was allowing the dog to dominate in the house." Now Jackson stays off the couch (because he gets attention only when he's on the floor) and calmly waits for the command to go outside before running out the door (thanks to some basic training with the command sit). And although Divenuto's son Marc, 5, is just a few inches taller than the family dog, Jackson even follows the youngster's commands to sit and stay. "There's no democracy in dogdom," says Kilcommons, who preaches that people--not their pets--should always...
...suggested that the best approach to soaring gasoline prices was this: wait. There's no immediate fix available, so let the market work its magic, Rove said. The stratospheric pricing will reduce demand soon enough, and $3-per-gal. gas will be a memory by summer. It's basic economics...
...Republican politician facing a re-election challenge in November, it's basic insanity. Rove should be the last person in America to have to be told that textbook economics isn't taking the campaign trip this summer with political reality. Not in a country where the right to drive 70 m.p.h. in a 55-m.p.h. zone while getting 15 m.p.g. is part of the national vehicular patrimony. The voters are getting incensed every time they drop $75 to fill their SUVs and pickups while oil companies tote up record earnings. "What upsets me more than anything is the Democrats...
...very core of the dropout epidemic is the staggering reality that the vast majority of students who drop out of school have not learned to read above the most basic level. As you point out, early-literacy programs play an important role in preventing reading problems; however, it is never too late to teach students to read. In thousands of middle and high school classrooms across the country, teachers have made a commitment to raising the achievement of older struggling readers. The students lucky enough to have access to these intervention programs are learning to read, regaining their self-confidence...