Word: problem
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...rhythm, starting awake briefly now and then to the thump of new passengers' gear being stowed and beds being made up. At dawn, after 10 stops, most of which we had slept through, we woke to peer down at the muddy train yard at Memphis, Tenn., where an engine problem kept us longer than scheduled. The lyrics of the Steve Goodman song ran through my head: "Changin' trains in Memphis, Tennessee, halfway home, we'll be there by morning, through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down...
Teachers complain that constant standardized testing kills classroom creativity by forcing them to teach for the tests alone. And education wonks see other problems with the Bush plan. If Gore throws money at the problem without demanding accountability, Bush demands accountability without throwing enough money. As Gore argued last week, Bush's proposed tax cut is so expensive--between $1.3 trillion and $2.1 trillion over 10 years, depending on whose analysis you believe--that it would exceed the projected surplus, leaving nothing for anything else. Blithely ignoring that problem, Bush proposes a five-year, $5.5 billion spending increase for education...
...Hall, head of the National Transportation Safety Board and a close ally of Vice President Al Gore, will testify in detail about four of the most serious runway incursions of last year, and he will call on lawmakers to take swift action. "Runway incursions are the No. 1 problem in aviation today," says Hall. "The FAA has run off the runway and is in a ditch on this one, and they better get out quick." Jane Garvey, director of the FAA, will be put in the hot seat by, among others, Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf, who says the hearing will...
...allegations, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, it's certainly another piece of baggage to add to a collection that's already big enough to fill a Louis Vuitton showroom. And that may be both comforting and not for the veep and First Lady. Comforting because it's just another problem of the same ilk as several they've faced - and survived - before; not so comforting because there's always the chance that this particular allegation may finally tip the scales of public opinion fully against those associated with the Clinton regime...
...give everyone what they want: Men get their mojo back, while some infertile women may get the pregnancies they desire. In Las Vegas, four patients whose uterine linings were considered too thin to support a fertilized egg were given Viagra in hopes of increasing blood flow to the problem areas - in the same way the drug delivers a surge of blood to a man's penis. The dosage worked for three of the women, whose linings thickened enough to accommodate an implanted embryo...