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Should we condemn students to mediocrity just to avoid the risk that they will fail a tougher challenge? That's what American public schools tend to do, argues Mary Catherine Swanson. Afraid of high dropout rates and low standardized test scores, many schools allow all but their top students to muddle through remedial and feel-good classes instead of preparing them for the rigors of college. No wonder so many parents want vouchers to send their kids to private schools...
...being reclaimed and transformed at the same time. Like any romance, the courtship between a church and a preacher can take a long time and some divine intervention to get right. Pastoral search committees often spend years looking for their perfect mate, a Shepherd in Chief who can somehow tend to both the budget and the soul. But as important as administrative skill and pastoral experience may be, many churches admit that right now, there's one gift that matters most. Says Duain Claiborne, who chaired the call committee for his Lutheran church in Northfield, Ill.: "The only thing people...
...risk in annuities is actuarial. If you die within a few years of purchasing an immediate fixed annuity, you will merely have financed someone else's retirement--a fact that can scare off customers. "People tend to worry about being losers," says Craig Copeland, a senior researcher at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. "And they don't want to run that risk." Inflation is another hazard: a modest 3% rate can cut the purchasing power of fixed-annuity payments 45% in 20 years...
...says John Gross, publisher of the Copper Journal. "That's a fact of life." Environmental rules and the high cost of operating in the U.S. have pushed miners to less developed countries such as Chile, the world's largest copper producer. Add to the mix that mines tend to be remote, and the uniqueness of Kennecott's marriage with South Jordan emerges. The Western states have seen enormous population growth in the past decade. A net total of 212,000 people settled in Utah (pop. 2.23 million) alone, and what's more, the state benefits from a high birthrate...
...family would not drown or be attacked by sharks. Inspired by the plight of his father, a political prisoner, he decided to become a lawyer, although most people told him his English would never be good enough. But a corporate lawyer? That was even more farfetched. "Minority lawyers tend to shy away from the corporate world," Hernandez says. "We don't have the road map or the playbooks. And we feel corporations may not really want what we bring to the table...