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...some nonviolent female drug offenders to Family Foundations, a community-based residential drug-treatment program. In Santa Fe Springs, Calif., female inmates live in what resembles a converted school building with their children up to age six. "You're not just another number where you're not getting any help," says Sarah Ambrosini, 29, who lives there with her two sons, ages four months and 16 months. The program is expensive, averaging $40,000 a year per inmate, compared with $25,000 in a regular prison. But since families stay together, fewer kids wind up in foster care. Also, follow...
...President Bush would tell failing schools that enough is enough: If you can't do the job, we'll give your federal dollars to parents to help them send their kids to a better school. A President Gore would keep trying: bring in a team of specialists, pump money into reform, and if all else fails, shut the place down and start over with a new principal and new teachers...
Normally, you might worry about a writer's ability to draw meaningful biographical blood from the soundless stone that was Joe DiMaggio. It doesn't help that the existing historical record is a fabulous piece of packaging, abetted by three generations of sports writers who knew that "the Daig"--short, one is sorry to say, for "Dago"--was their meal ticket. But Cramer is an all-star reporter, and if his fertile prose at times sprouts too many colloquial tendrils and exclamatory blossoms, it soon gives way to the sheer muscle of his facts. Oddly, the book's weakest part...
...when I had to pick someone to help me test a new digital picture frame from Kodak--which goes on sale at Kodak.com this week--my high school pal was the obvious choice. After all, what new mom can resist snapping pictures of her precious offspring? And with a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, she's hardly a technophobe...
What is happening in the Amazon forest sends a dire alarm that needs to be heeded. I have traveled on many occasions in the past 26 years on some of the roads you described. I can't help noticing the increasing roadside devastation from one trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state...