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...should run the 15 independent charter schools. Theoretically, any organization-including the teachers' union-was eligible to propose its own system if it presented a plausible plan for a 500-student campus and agreed to Thompson's 90-90 yardstick. New state legislation would be needed to establish the schools. But both Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Governor Jennifer Granholm were thrilled by Thompson's offer-at least until the Detroit Federation of Teachers made plain its opposition. On Sept. 25 the DFT held a work stoppage, which closed the public schools, and staged a rally at the state capitol...
...even surpass its two rivals in the realm of space. Beijing hopes to send a satellite around the moon by 2006, land a robotic explorer there two years later and make a moon walk perhaps within a decade. After that, the Chinese want to build a space station and "establish a base on the moon," Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the lunar-expedition program, told state media. He doesn't rule out colonizing other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life...
That said, moving closer to your children certainly lets you establish a new relationship with them in a different context. Take Harold Nussbaum, 54, who wanted to know his daughter Fanita better. She was 7 when Harold and her mother divorced, and although he did his best to keep in touch, he felt he had missed out on big pieces of her life. So in 1998 he and his wife Gloria, 52, moved from their longtime home in Akron, Pa., to Beaverton, Ore. Now they live seven miles from Fanita, her husband and her three children. "We concentrate on simple...
...time, Schneider was touring the country publicizing the book Fear Without Frontiers, which he edited, and working on a proposal to establish a world-class, international horror film festival. The opportunity to work with the Brattle was very appealing, says Schneider, who is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard in the Philosophy department...
...fact, like all incoming Harvard students, the recruits felt the need to move beyond high school and establish themselves in Cambridge...