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Looking back on my first year at Harvard, I cannot fathom how I survived without ESPN's SportsCenter, Sunday Night Football, and Wednesday Night Baseball. Additionally, sports fans can only watch half of the Red Sox games because NESN might cost the administration a few extra pennies. Celtics games on Fox Sports New England are unavailable to college students in dorm rooms, as well as any regular season sports...
...Friday there were more visitors than usual to the memorial at the site of the bombing in Oklahoma City. Ellen Bailey, 74, hoped that the extra time "might help convince McVeigh to say he's sorry." For his part, her son Larry is typical of many others: he opposes the death penalty but not this time. "I'm for it. I'm hoping it will give the victims closure." Beth Carpenter had worked in the building until the month before the bombing and lost scores of friends. She was distraught at the news of the delay. "He deserves...
...that Universal Global risked becoming a depository for the least motivated students, the district paid $8,500 in 1997 to bring in an acclaimed, privately developed program called AVID. It places C students in the most rigorous courses available, then gives them the support necessary to succeed, including an extra class period each day devoted to individual tutoring. All of Fox's 90 AVID students now plan to go to college. Senior Precious Wright, 18, was forced to move to Kansas after her grandmother, with whom she had been living, died last year. Wright was afraid that without the help...
...juggle multiple jobs, and have little time or energy for teacher conferences or homework help. Professional couples with two demanding careers often view the schools as subcontractors whom they pay, through hefty taxes, to fill ever more complex roles: as babysitters, coaches, cops, nurses, therapists and surrogate parents. These extra burdens come at a time when teachers face rising pressure to show results in the classroom. Isabelle Carduner, a French teacher at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Mich., says too many parents are "overextended with their jobs. When I tell them there's a problem with their kids, they...
...been good environmental intentions. A web of regional clean-air regulations require that up to a third of all gas sold in the U.S. be blended in complex ways for cleaner emissions. The regulations are strictest in California, where, not surprisingly, gasoline is most expensive. Blending costs an extra nickel per gallon in the Golden State and 3[cents] in smog zones in other parts of the country. Because there are more than a dozen types of "reformulated" gasoline, every refinery faces added costs...