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...investigate what she could do for her son Kendrick, who was behind in his reading skills. She discovered that fewer than one-third of the students who requested transfers from low-scoring New York City schools actually got them last year. The good schools just didn't have extra space. This year Olivero sent her only son to live with his uncle in suburban Greenwich, Conn., and attend school there. "I wish he could have stayed in the Bronx and just walked to school," Olivero says. "But there was nothing else I could do. The transfer system is hopeless...
...past three months, the reconnaissance unit has conducted 72 separate operations against terrorist targets. The group is getting faster with each mission. Immediately after receiving the midnight order to pursue the suspect in Nablus, Dan and his lieutenants began planning the raid, phoning nearby units to ask for extra vehicles, grenades and infrared light sticks to operate in the darkness. In a Spartan classroom at the Beit Lid base that functions as the unit's command center, Dan showed his troops magnified aerial images of Nablus' Old City, pointing out the target house and identifying positions for each soldier...
Even though iTunes' reach is limited to the 3% of computer users on Macintoshes (a PC version is due by year's end), Apple's success has left the others playing catch-up. Many Internet music services require monthly subscriptions to listen to songs over the computer or extra fees for downloading them (often with complicated and varying stipulations). Some services, like Listen.com's Rhapsody, plan to stick with the subscription format, but Rhapsody also plans to offer an a la carte option for nonsubscribers...
...GOOD AND BAD: Good for music fans who don't mind listening to music on their computers. Windows-based format makes it accessible to most. But extra cost to burn tracks...
...Aisling Reidy, director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Reidy points out that Justice Minister Michael McDowell "has had this report since last December. In that time he has introduced new legislation to give the police more extensive powers of detention, but he hasn't brought in any extra safeguards to protect those in custody." McDowell stood up for Ireland's cops, warning that "the mere making of an allegation is not proof of the truth," but said that "if there is a small number of police abusing prisoners, that is of course a concern." The CPT's findings...