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...Percentage of American voters who believe breast cancer is the most critical health problem facing women today...
...great educator John Dewey once wrote that "democracy needs to be reborn in every generation." The problem was that between 1972, when 18-year-olds first got the right to vote, and 2000, youth voting decreased in each election cycle. But there are signs that that dispiriting trend is shifting. Youth participation increased in 2004, and this year there seems to be a youthquake. Young people sense that they are coming of age at a time when leadership?and their role in choosing it?really matters...
...April 17, 2006, cover story, "Dropout Nation," helped spark a national discussion of one of America's most pressing educational problems: the more than 1 million students who give up on high school each year. As a result of that story, we became part of the anti-dropout coalition led by Colin Powell's nonprofit, America's Promise Alliance, which is launching 100 summits in 50 states to tackle this problem...
Hand-eye coordination? Maybe. But she pointed out that kids that age--with their delicate, still developing carpal tunnels--are especially vulnerable to repetitive stress injury. O.K., but here's something else: Lily gets frustrated easily, and the game rewards her for sticking with a problem till she solves it. "Maybe she could get the same kind of thing from trying to make a cake?" Thomas asked. "There are lots of other things to solve that have a much richer protocol." I get it: that's what the real world...
...that's the trouble. "The big problem remains that you've got a central government that is dysfunctional and disorganized, and that's being kind," says Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, who has been to Iraq seven times. Cole believes that the only thing that will compel Iraq's various factions to work together is the threat of U.S. withdrawal?something the Iraq Study Group proposed more than a year...