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...Dedert runs information technology programs at the school. His tidy computer room is the students' main active link to the wider world. (Of course, there's no escape from television, that passive friend in a box to children everywhere.) Still, Dedert says, students are not greatly interested in making distant connections with others via the Internet; e-mail is used sparingly, if at all. "The outside world is a TV world," says Boyle. "This community, where their relatives and friends live, that's their world." The school and elders are trying to equip children with enterprise skills, he adds...
...maybe not. For now, rumors of the casket's death are somewhat exaggerated. The normally stiff industry is offering consumers a wider range of options, from customized doodads to cheaper models to online window shopping. With families still paying $2,000 to $2,500 on average for a casket--a third of the average bill for the total funeral, which the National Funeral Directors Association says was $6,500 in 2004--there's still plenty of money in building boxes for burial...
...Hizballah or take control of southern Lebanon. More than one third of the army's personnel is Shi'ite, drawn from a community in which Hizballah is overwhelmingly popular. And as long as it is the only force fighting the Israelis inside Lebanon, Hizballah's support would be even wider, making it even less likely that the government could order the Army to move against it. "The Lebanese Army will never be given any orders to disarm any militia, especially under these circumstances when Hizballah is being attacked by Israel," said Gen. Ismail. "The Lebanese army is not going...
...difficult proposition, but doing so at a point where Shi'ite public opinion is so openly hostile to the Coalition may be entirely implausible. Indeed, the key to disarming those militias is more likely to lie in a new political agreement with their party bosses, in conjunction with a wider national-unity power-sharing agreement capable of shrinking the base of the Sunni insurgency. But the mounting sectarian violence and the passions stoked by Lebanon make the prospects for such a deal right now more remote than ever...
...buzz among the 2008 potential candidates, but ex-Virginia Governor Mark Warner, Senator John Kerry, and a bevy of other governors and senators will be running. Biden has acknowledged raising money could be a problem, particularly as some of the other candidates have already run national races or have wider contacts in the fundraising circuit. Kerry and Warner have been perhaps the most aggressive in raising money - and parceling it out to congressional candidates. Warner recently donated $10,000 to the PAC of Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat and prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus who is unopposed this...