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...catch the country's extraordinary fauna is to plan a two- or three-day trip to one of India's numerous national parks, where jeep and elephant-back safaris will take you deep into the forest. Four of the best national parks are listed below; a few days spent in any one of them can open a window into a secret world, where golden-faced storks hover over the morning mist in ghostly congress, monkeys hold parliament on the branches of dead trees, and peacocks fight stately, formal duels while circling around watering holes...
Actor Mike Randleman has spent the past four years documenting prisoners' last meals on the blog Dead Man Eating, and he says nearly all requests are for comfort food: 80% are for cheeseburgers, steak or fried chicken. "You go back to something that made you feel good at one time," says Randleman. "It always makes my day when someone picks candy. An assorted bag of Jolly Ranchers or a box of Whoppers. It's straight back to youth." For his own last meal, Randleman, who has thought about this a lot, would take a cupcake...
...founding era, backed an earlier New York City mayor, DeWitt Clinton. Clinton was born to run: his uncle and mentor George Clinton had been Governor of New York State for 21 years and Vice President for eight; young DeWitt was George's right hand. Both Clintons had spent their careers opposing Federalism, attacking the Constitution when it was up for ratification and joining Thomas Jefferson's small-government Republican Party (ancestor of today's Democrats). But by 1812, the Federalists had lost three presidential elections in a row, and Clinton had become convinced that his party had a glass ceiling...
...core of the debate is a fundamental issue: Is building roads one of those things, like trade policy, that only the Federal Government should steer, or is there a better way? Forty-five percent of the money spent on American roads comes to the states from the Federal Government, but Congress hasn't raised the gas tax, its main source of highway funds, since 1993. And that's just fine by people who find the free market efficient and earmark-free...
...funding programs perceived by many to be inefficient, expensive, and ineffective. Furthermore, the program does not spend money without measurable achievement. Unlike an underperforming teacher or an expenditure on unnecessary supplies, which both represent sunk costs for a school district, here, a student has to perform before money is spent. Yes, the concept of providing monetary incentives on tests is controversial, but if it works, it will streamline the education system and serve as an invaluable tool in correcting the inequality in academic performance. Students from low-income and minority backgrounds will be given the opportunity to catch...