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...here on the frontier, only the hardiest survive. And Paramount Academy is both figuratively and literally on the frontier. The school operates out of a handful of trailers at the edge of a cookie-cutter housing complex in Mesa, Ariz., a rugged desert city that sprouted into a Phoenix suburb two decades ago. But the academy sits on an ideological edge as well: Paramount is a charter school, a publicly funded enterprise that's privately run--in this case, primarily by a former shoe-repair-shop owner who never graduated from college--and free of the bureaucracy that bogs down...
...daughter Staci in most of the familiar ways. But after a year at Paramount, Staci was thriving. With the help of the school's performing-arts program, the once shy fourth-grader had found her voice and performed a Beach Boys medley in a charity concert at the Phoenix airport...
...Instead, Nenneman entered the banking industry. Over the period of a decade, he worked for three banking firms, ending at a bank in Phoenix, Ariz...
...darkening FairAir's skies. One is their modest size: even with the nation's fourth largest airline in Northwest, the scope of the website is still very limited, and therefore, so is their potential secondary market. If you are in the prominent cities (for example, Minneapolis for Northwest or Phoenix with America West), FairAir might be great - if not, you might be out of luck...
...kind bowling alleys rent out by the hour and lose to petty thieves. The last time rental bowling shoes were hot was in the early '90s, the grunge era and the depths of the downsizing of America's corporations. Now, as the U.S. economy slides, lane operators from Phoenix to Milwaukee have been reporting thefts of up to 20 pairs a month. "You wonder: Where are their morals?" marvels one. They are popular in Japan, too, and we all know how that economy is doing. Fashion has contributed to the trend?Brad Pitt threw a bowling party for wife Jennifer...