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...federal government at least appears to understand that there has to be a delicate balance between the twin issues of security and the environment. "The solution has to vary location to location," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said last month to a room full of wary Texas landowners who fear access to Rio Grande water could be limited and border residents who have long viewed their Mexican neighbors (some of whom are family relatives) as friends and customers. "Obviously, at the end of the day, we have to make sure we can satisfy our operational requirements...
...getting good grades at Harvard is easy. My first introduction to the difficulty of Harvard academics came freshman year, when I realized that the titles of some classes in the course catalogue had words that, as far as I knew, did not exist in the English language. You can understand my trepidation when I read about classes such as Biophysics 360, “Enzymatic Mechanisms and Antibiotic Biosynthesis.” While that class seemed cool (sounded like you’d be spending the semester experimenting with DNA of super-humans or radioactive mutants or something...
...While the Islamists see only one right path, the Sufis see a house on the top of a hill, and understand that there are many different paths to reach the house," says my host, Al-haj Warrag, a liberal Sudanese journalist whose white djellabah sweeps behind him as we cross the dusty graveyard, approaching the mosque. "There is nothing fanatical about them...
...higher prices, and buying again. The government really wanted to cool off the speculation, the boss told her. Probably not a good time to buy. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added: It might be a good time to buy stocks instead. Liu balked. "I don't really understand the stock market,'' says the 35-year-old, "why it goes up or down." Now she is kicking herself. "I can't believe I was so dumb," she says, "but I think it's too late...
...understand the impact of the 2001 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, indelibly rebranded as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), you need to visit a school like Blaine. The astonishingly ambitious law, the Bush Administration's proudest domestic achievement, was crafted with high-poverty, low-achieving schools like this one in mind. NCLB proponents and critics alike agree that the law's greatest accomplishment has been shining an unforgiving spotlight on such languishing schools and demanding that they do better. At Blaine, for instance, only 13% of fifth- and eighth-graders were reading on grade level or above...