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...stakes by threatening to attack Syria in retaliation for Hizballah's moves, it's not entirely clear that Syria controls the group. Hizballah's top leadership is probably as responsive to Iran as it is to Syria. Still, the prospect of Israel's taking on the group's sponsors instead of just the group is worrisome...
Workers love IM for the same reason that kids do: it lets them hold virtual meetings anytime and anyplace. No more playing telephone tag or pulling down an e-mail screen. Instead, IM users can spot who is online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would...
...since families stay together, fewer kids wind up in foster care. Also, follow-up studies show inmates in the program have a lower recidivism rate. Says Sterling O'Ran, an administrator for California's Department of Corrections: "We've been able to get them hooked on their kids instead of drugs." Many prison moms would like that same opportunity...
...Bush plan in action, consider the story of Spencer Bibbs Elementary in Pensacola, Fla. Meant to be a magnet school for science and technology, Spencer Bibbs instead posted abysmal test scores that landed it on the state's worst-performing list two years in a row. During the 1998-99 school year, just 26% of its students scored at the minimum-competency level of the state's reading exam...
...phoned Andrew Wolvin, a University of Maryland researcher who studies how people listen. "We are so invested in our kids' lives that it's difficult to just be a sounding board when they want to talk," he says. "Everybody in America wants to run around dispensing advice. Instead, let your teenager articulate the problem and think of a solution...