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...local level. Consider El Paso, Texas, where one-third of the adult residents cannot read English and last year only 75% graduated from high school. Ten years ago, the University of Texas at El Paso joined with that city's community leaders and three of its largest and lowest-performing school districts. Today UTEP's mark is apparent everywhere, from the schools' cheery hallways (the once drab corridors are papered over with student artwork) to test scores...
...another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel. As American soldiers stenciled Snoopy onto their helmets and the Apollo 10 astronauts christened their command module Charlie Brown and their lunar landing vehicle Snoopy, Schulz left his imprimatur on the Cold War's highest and lowest moments - the race to put a man on the moon and the war in Vietnam...
...particularly eerie part is the verse in which the sap at the center of Jones' tale tells how he turns on his friend and kills him. It's a spookily similar situation to the one I described a couple of columns back, when George, during one his lowest moments in the '70s, shot at his buddy Earl "Peanut" Montgomery. Only difference: George missed...
...Greenspan, who hiked interest rates six times to head off wage pressures and inflation, do his job too well? The Commerce Department on Thursday revised third-quarter economic growth Thursday down to 2.2 percent, the lowest since 1996 and a far cry from Q2's 5.6 percent. And barring a Christmas retail-sales miracle this weekend, Q4 isn't looking much better. Consumer confidence is down. Auto sales are down. Everything is down, except unemployment...
Using the single transferable vote (STV) system, voters had the opportunity to rank each of the candidates. In each round, the lowest-ranking candidate is eliminated, and votes for that candidate are redistributed to those voters' second choices, until one candidate receives a majority...