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...Greeks who are expecting this change or the international community? Both, I think. First of all, the international community because in a sense in the European Union we have become a test case of both the euro - its survival - and how to deal with this high deficit in a time of crisis. It's not only a Greek problem. Our bad ways, if you like, or our difficulties or our wrong decisions, have exacerbated the problem of the international crisis in Greece. (Read: "Germany: Tensions...
...haired, strapping and fabulous" and an academic high achiever, but she does every drug under the sun, including her peers' parentally dispensed Adderall. The book is a stark illustration of deception, denial and parents' desperate desire to stay loved. You emerge from its last bittersweet pages ready to drug-test your Little Leaguer, if that's what it will take to keep him safe. That's extreme, obviously, but Lamott, though a fierce advocate of civil rights and social justice, wouldn't rule it out for teens who seem at risk...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition made unforeseen gains in the March 28 regional elections, taking four districts from the opposition--including Lazio, which contains Rome--for a total of six of the 13 contested regions. Berlusconi viewed the results of the election, which was considered a test of his popularity, as a mandate to move ahead with several controversial reforms, including an overhaul of the country's justice system and a constitutional change that would allow for direct election of the President, a position separate from that of the Prime Minister...
...that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began to overhaul the school's math curriculum. His young charges did so well on the 1982 advanced-placement calculus exam that suspicious officials made a dozen of them retake the test. Each and every one passed...
Eldrup says Denmark makes a good test case for the large-scale production of electric cars. For starters, the country does not have an auto industry. Second, Danes pay a 180% tax for new-car registration, while there is no such fee imposed on electric autos, an attractive incentive for consumers. "If we are successful, that gives us a lot of learning and new development in new technology and businesses in Denmark," says Eldrup. He adds, "It also gives us value in exporting." (See the top 10 news stories...