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...cottage named "Esperanza," Spanish for hope. In April, he will receive his adult sentence, which he has already pleaded down from a possible life term to anywhere from 1 to 30 years - and is trying to negotiate even further downward. Chavarria arrived at Foothill unable to read, spell or understand math. Now he is in the 9th grade with the hope that he can convince authorities to let him stay at Foothill until he is 21 and earn his GED before he is transferred to an adult facility. "I'm getting all A's in my classes, but my mother...
...feels that all students should have access to gender-neutral housing. “We feel that the lock criterion is kind of an impediment to actually implementing gender-neutral housing,” Smith said. “We think that the housing committee does not understand the important reasons why gender-neutral housing needs to be universal.” Smith added that the scope of the updated system would also be too limited. “Assuming the housing committee divides people between male and female sexes, in the case of a gay male...
...design care accordingly. "I'm worried about training a generation of physicians who don't have the other skills they need for the optimal practice of medicine," says Dr. Mark Tonelli, a pulmonary-care specialist at the University of Washington in Seattle. "They can read the scientific literature, understand the statistics, but they don't understand how that should influence their treatment of the individual in front of them." What's more, some insurance companies have been very aggressive in using evidence-based arguments to deny payment for untested treatments--a circular problem, because how do you create the evidence...
...steelworkers and, most recently, Saddam Hussein, has been his eloquent draftsmanship. From early sketches of train commuters in Kogarah to his first diary accounts of soldiers while making a film in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution, Gittoes has been interested in rendering the forces of industry and war. "I understand soldiers," he says. And his understanding has come about as much through pen, pencil and brush, as his new show of drawings at Sydney's Australian Galleries makes startlingly clear. Of his four trips to Baghdad, no event confounded Gittoes as much as the 2004 abduction of Irish-born CARE...
...presence of their lifestyle of tennis and hors d’oeuvres. As the narrator grows older, she becomes more contemplative, and her exploration of her identity subtly becomes the main focus. Her fascination with the lives of her forebears is another facet of her drive to understand, to trace back attitudes about work and impractical dreams as far as possible to see how they change and how they stay the same.Although the collection clearly has its weaknesses, Munro is exceptionally strong when she is working with the engrossing material of her own life. Her wonderful gift for using strong...