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...parents received vouchers, paid for by state and federal money, covering tuition at about 70% of Tennessee's day-care centers (as much as $85 a week for a child under two). To meet the demand of a welfare population going to work, Tennessee made it relatively easy to open centers, didn't require background checks or training for caregivers before they started work and mandated a higher ratio of children to staff than state experts recommended...
...both giants of hill-country boogie. On the walls, a gallery of American icons--Betty Page, Casey Jones, Father Flanagan, Mississippi John Hurt--keep watch as Cody, a skinny 24-year-old with Prince Valiant hair and a powerful chest, works a zebra-striped drum kit. With his mouth open, head cocked and eyes scrunched in an expression of mind-bending wonder, he sets up a martial beat taken from the fife-and-drum bands that have been playing in these hills since the Civil War, then dances around it with virtuoso rock and jazz accents. Luther, 27, his soft...
...district's popular athletic programs. "I couldn't get a single parent to attend a planning meeting, and we had just won a state championship in football," he says. But before ruling out the Osceola system for his five-year-old son Jackson, Brothers saw one last opportunity: to open a publicly financed charter school. Governor Mike Huckabee had signed legislation in early 1999 that would allow for as many as 12 charter schools, independent of local districts, to be established in the state. So Brothers, along with the Chamber of Commerce director, Mayor Dickie Kennemore and others settled...
...gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting with his girlfriend...
Missed, again. Still, don't expect the fact that the proposed missile defense system has thus far proved incapable of passing two out of three open-book tests - never mind combat simulations in which the "enemy" actually tries to confuse it with decoys - to put the kibosh on the controversial scheme. But the embarrassing mechanical failure in the test over the Pacific early Saturday does make life a lot easier for President Clinton and candidate Gore. Success would have forced the President to make a tough decision on go ahead with the program that threatens to destabilize existing arms-control...