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About 40% to 45% of the estimated 500 million pounds of perc produced annually is used by cleaners. In an effort to reduce exposure to perc, the Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with trade groups, has launched a four-week test of a new cleaning method that eschews all chemical...
But school choice proponents should not see the recently released report as a major setback. Rather, they should regard such conclusions as a call for improvement and restructuring of what is still a relatively new educational experiment. Condemning the program when it is still in its embryonic stages would not...
The experiment with changing the system three years ago failed. Randomization got pushed aside because Harvard caved to undergraduate pressure. And non-ordered choice has failed because it promotes self-segregation and unfairness.
More important than its assistance to public health efforts would be the proposal's effect on discouraging young people from taking up smoking. Supporters of the initiative estimate that a 25-cent hike in cigarette prices would result in 80,000 people quitting or deciding not to experiment with this...
"Our inability to come to terms with this issue may well decide between the relative failure or the relative success of our precious but precarious democratic experiment," he said.