The Sunday Times January 01, 2006 North Korea gathers kit for nuclear bombs Michael Sheridan, Far East Correspondent NORTH KOREA is working to restart a...
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Russia slashes gas supply to Ukraine Updated Sun. Jan. 1 2006 11:38 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff Russia cut natural gas sales to Ukraine Sunday, in an escalation of...
Mount St. Helens releasing lava at astonishing pace Friday, December 30, 2005; Posted: 8:43 p.m. EST (01:43 GMT) SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Roughly every...
Putin sends a shiver through Europe By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow (Filed: 02/01/2006) Russia took Europe to the brink of a winter energy crisis yesterday when...
Empirical evidence that less not more public funded education is best for the country -- Note these statistics: "More than four out of five Indian engineering...
Monday, 2 January 2006, 17:39 GMT Russia vows to end gas shortage Russia says it will pump more gas to Europe after various countries said their supplies had...
I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on...
January 1, 2006 The Public Editor Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence By BYRON CALAME THE New York Times's explanation of its decision to report,...
Windows PCs face ‘huge’ virus threat By Kevin Allison in San Francisco Published: January 2 2006 18:18 | Last updated: January 2 2006 22:19 Computer...
Pakistan in talks to buy Chinese reactors By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad Published: January 2 2006 21:52 | Last updated: January 2 2006 21:52 Pakistan and...
Rovers Still Explore Mars After 2 Years By ALICIA CHANG , 01.01.2006, 01:18 PM The warranty expired long ago on NASA's twin robots motoring around Mars. These ...
While comparing education in India to education in the U.S. and coming to the unsubstantiated conclusion "that less not more public funded education is best...
Bob Speth
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Bob; All we here is we need more money.... we need more money... we need more money and that is flat out WRONG. We need free enterprise. Government schools...
Iran Gov't Shuts Down Newspaper, Magazine Jan 03 8:32 PM US/Eastern TEHRAN, Iran Iran closed a daily newspaper and a magazine, one of the publications said ...
Abramoff Pleads Guilty, Will Cooperate Jan 3, 7:33 PM (ET) By MARK SHERMAN and CURT ANDERSON WASHINGTON (AP) - Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist who spawned a...
Iran announces further resumption of atomic work Tue Jan 3, 2006 8:17 AM ET164 By Paul Hughes TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran announced on Tuesday it would resume...
Top forecaster sees U.S. recession By Joshua Krongold Bloomberg News The U.S. bond market's most accurate forecaster, who plies his trade 500 miles from Wall...
Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile Document seen by Guardian details web of front companies and middlemen Ian Cobain and Ian...
Ken, I did not get the sense of "we need more money" from the article, although that is a commonly expressed 'solutiion' to what our public school system needs...
Bob Speth
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Couple of points. 1. People can afford private education as the average private school costs less per capita than the average public school taxation cost per...
Which "people" are you referring to with respect to who can afford to pay? Could the so-called "working poor" afford private schools even if they did not have...
Bob Speth
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With public education, you pay for it from the date of your first job until you die regardless if you have kids or not, no matter how poor for in either case...
So if private schools are the obvious and least expensive way of obtaining an education, how do you propose overcoming the inertia that supports public...
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President of Taiwan hardens China line By Keith Bradsher The New York Times SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2006 HONG KONG In a televised speech that squelched months of...