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Education |
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July 2004 |
Four decades and $66,000,000,000 after Head Start was launched, "the school readiness gap between poor children and their middle class peers remains large. Perhaps no government program can compensate for what a hard life takes away." |
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Medicine & Health |
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July 2004 |
Increasing numbers of medical studies indict dairy products as contributors to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, allergies, & possibly breast cancer. In children, dairy products can cause constipation, ear infefections, colic, asthma. . . |
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National Affairs |
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July 2004 |
By employing cooperative engagement--the perfect antidote to the Bush Administration's insistence on preemptive unilateralism--the U.S. can bring its security doctrine more in line with global realities. |
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Focus on America |
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July 2004 |
"Sally Mann: What Remains" -- ". . . At the base of a hickory tree was a glistening pool of dark blood. I was tempted to touch its perfectly tensioned surface. Instead, as I stared, it shrank perceptively . . . As if the Earth had taken a delicate sip." |
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American Thought |
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July 2004 |
"American citizens are torn by an ill-advised war and occupation led by leaders who, in seeking to stifle the sort of healthy debate democracy requires, do not seem to understand, indeed, who seem to shun, our nation's history." |
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Business & Finance |
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July 2004 |
"It takes time, costs money, raises difficult family issues, and revolves around something most of us do not want to think about--death." |
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Law & Justice |
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July 2004 |
". . . Class remedies, such as affirmative action and racial set-asides, assume that all members of the 'monolithic white majority' are guilty of racial class injuries and all members of 'discrete and insular' minorities are victims of such injuries." |
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Ecology |
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July 2004 |
Ants--who have roamed the Earth since the days of the dinosaur--are expert farmers, fearsome warriors, voracious meat-eaters, and omnipresent socialites. Most of all, however, they are virtually indestructible. |
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Science & Technology |
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July 2004 |
"It is the need to defend against the next generation of potential terrorist weapons--a witch's brew broadly designated as chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) agents--that is driving the current revolution in safety systems." |
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Museums Today |
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July 2004 |
Viewers can "reassess the artist's unique status as a draughtsman, colorist, theorist, and 'painter of modern life,' as well as his talent in relation to his forebears and contemporaries. |
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Worldview |
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July 2004 |
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. had the opportunity to lead the world toward greater cooperation through diplomacy, int'l organization, and int'l law. Instead, the world is drifting toward military anarchy while democracy erodes at home. |
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Economics |
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July 2004 |
With South Korea flexing its considerable economic muscle on the world stage, the U.S. suddenly has a new competitor--and partner--in the ever-evolving global marketplace |
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Life in America |
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July 2004 |
". . . Success and prosperity for the majority of black Americans in the 21st century only will be achieved by a strong coalition of Christians and Muslims who are dedicated to the values of democracy and social justice." |
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Americans Abroad |
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July 2004 |
Every newly stitched American flag will declare that peace has been achieved by embracing Israelis and Palestinians as American citizens, and by welcoming their lands as unique--and equal--states." |
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