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Hi All.... hope this finds you well.

My state is about out of money.... seems many others are in a similar state of affairs.

I can not help but go here: The Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan

Since 2001, the United States alone has spent over $687 billion on the Iraq war. We have spent over $228 billion on the war in Afghanistan. By the end of this year, 2009, we will have allocated about a trillion dollars for these two wars.

There are costs over and above the expenditures mentioned above… Continue

Carlisle Indian School

SCHOOL LIFE

Teachers were waiting at the school to begin their work. Pratt had hired a full complement of staff, both for academic and industrial instruction. They had been carefully selected and were ready to begin as soon as the children arrived. Pratt… Continue

Hope and Despair in the American City
Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh
Gerald Grant


In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5–4 verdict in the case of Milliken v. Bradley, thereby blocking the state of Michigan from merging the Detroit public school system with those of… Continue

Earliest human footprints made 1.5million years ago show ancestors walked like us

27th February 2009

Two sets of prints were left by Homo ergaster, an early ancestor of modern humans, in separate rock layers near Ileret in northern Kenya.

Laser scanning revealed tha… Continue

SOMETIMES

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories

who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,

you come
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening reques… Continue