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...provide $185 million to combat father absenteeism and $10 million for a project showing fathers' importance --To establish parenting mentors --To save salmon in the Northwest without destroying dams --To help families avoid welfare with work-first services...
Among Eden's staunchest supporters are state leaders. In some states, including New Jersey and South Carolina, officials have used fines collected from nursing homes to establish grants for Eden. In May the Institute for Quality Improvement in Long Term Health Care in San Marcos, Texas, published the results of a two-year study of five Texas homes at which Eden is implemented. The study showed dramatic reductions in infections and behavioral incidents among residents and lower rates of absenteeism among staff. Later this month, Bill Thomas, the impassioned geriatrician who founded the movement in 1991, will head to Washington...
...occasion of Haviaras' retirement, an anonymous donor gave $25,000 to establish an annual Stratis Haviaras Lecture in poetry; Heaney gave the first address in April...
...desire to attract tourists. The result can be a bit surreal and even disconcerting. The quaint shopping areas sell mainly souvenirs. The history is generally sanitized. But it's important not to be cynical. In a pioneering, road-loving America, one can sense a sincere yearning to re-establish roots and restore community identity...
...tests was primed to succeed by eliminating the most basic of decoys from the equation. Scientific critics have argued that the system has an inherent inability, in battlefield conditions, to distinguish an enemy warhead from a cone-shaped traffic beacon. Advocates counter that the tests are simply trying to establish whether the system can walk before trying to make it run. It doesn't help their case, though, that the interceptor system isn't even managing to stay on its feet...