Word: linked
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...measure school success. Gore, unwilling to pressure the teachers' unions from which he derives a significant chunk of his support, would encourage schools to use voluntary testing to measure progress and merely requires that failing schools be identified. Yet without mandated testing to measure failing schools, a missing link exists between identifying these schools and fixing them...
...undisturbed in the same location, bearing license plates stolen in Yemen's hinterlands and loaded with diving gear and alleged bomb equipment, since taken by the FBI for analysis. Among the discoveries: the men may have had as many as five safe houses. Yemen's President has implied a link between the suspects and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group closely tied to Bin Laden. But FBI officials say they have seen no evidence of that. Unlike the East African governments, Yemeni officials have refused to allow the FBI to join local cops on joint searches and interviews with witnesses...
...while no cause has yet been determined, a study published last month suggests that a possible culprit could be phthalates, which are used, among other things, to make plastics flexible. It's by no means an ironclad case, however, and the plastics industry doubts that there's any link. But, says Rogan, "what went on in Puerto Rico is a good question and one that needs more study...
...State University study reports that children born from January through March are more likely than other kids to suffer depression and anxiety later in life. Part of this can be attributed to the effect of seasonal affective disorder on the mother during pregnancy. There may also be a nutritional link: in the winter, mothers tend to eat too many carbohydrates and too few veggies and proteins...
...takes him back to where he started in politics. "Al Gore inherited a fighting streak for the underclass from his father," says longtime Gore adviser Roy Neel. "If you were a poor factory worker with a backyard satellite dish in rural Tennessee as your only real link to the world and big cable companies were telling you to shove it, then Al Gore was your...