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...like Zara and H&M, has breathed new life into secondhand stores like Buffalo Exchange by boosting their supply of barely worn apparel. "H&M is our bread and butter," says Stevenson, 27, as she flips through a carousel of blouses from H&M, American Apparel, Benetton and the Gap with prices ranging from $7.50 to $14 apiece...
...Plato's Closet, which caters to teens, a computerized system in each outlet spits out prices for popular brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, Baby Phat and Seven. There's even a guide to help workers determine the age of, say, a pair of shorts from the Gap on the basis of the styling of the label. (Plato's won't take anything more than a year old.) Owned by the Minneapolis-based Winmark Corp., Plato's has opened some 200 franchises since 1999. The company rang up more than $100 million in sales in 2006 and plans to open 35 additional...
...School-based Teacher-led Assessment Reporting System (STARS) that has yielded impressive results, been praised by education scholars and attracted interest from Edward Kennedy, NCLB's Senate custodian. "We just told the Department of Education that if they were really trying to [serve] all kids and close the proficiency gap that high-stakes testing isn't the way to do it," says Doug Christensen, state commissioner of education. "We told them we would show them that we had a better...
Missouri has the smallest scoring gap: 2 points MORE SCORES To see how your state scored in math, visit our interactive map at time.com/nochild Note: State-by-state scores for both tests are for 2005, the latest complete year available. The Washington, D.C., reading score is for fifth-graders. Sources: National Center for Education Statistics; the Education Trust; Testing, Learning and Teaching by Martin West, Brown University
...with a series called Torqued Ellipses, Serra arrived at the intricate configurations of space that are the great discovery at the heart of all his recent work. The ellipses were steel plates, 13-ft. high, that had been formed into twisted ovals you could enter through a gap on one side. With these Serra wasn't merely addressing space; he was creating space of a new kind. Literally new. At one point Serra and his attorney thought of having the form trademarked. "We dropped the idea," he says, "but we knew we had come upon something that hadn't been...