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JULY 2004 Featured Articles
A HEAD START TO NOWHERE
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."
DEATH'S INDELIBLE IMPRESSION
"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."
PROTECTING PEOPLE INSIDE BUILDINGS
"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."
THE BAD NEWS IS REALLY GOOD NEWS
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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