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'A Nation at Risk': How much of 'apocalyptic' education report still applies?
'A Nation at Risk,' released 30 years ago Friday, was one of a series of reports sounding alarms. Some of the same issues in US schools still resonate today, although progress in certain areas has come through various reforms.
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Chapter & Verse World Book Night US: Washington, Michigan, and New York attract the most volunteers
As World Book Night approaches again, a list of rankings shows where volunteers – who give away free books on April 23 – are most heavily clustered in the US.
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For some farmers, a return to animal power
A nonprofit based in Michigan teaches animal-powered farming at home and abroad. Draft power, or animal traction, is a method smaller farmers still use because draft animals cost less than tractors and require no fuel.
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Cover Story
What Americans want from the next presidentOn the eve of a historically tight election, a writer drives through swing states and listens to the voices of America, hearing one overriding plea: 'Washington, stop bickering. Get something done!'
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Decoder Wire How Ted Nugent might fend off the Secret Service
The Secret Service is set to interview the shocker rocker Thursday about his anti-Obama comments, and whether he meant to threaten the president's life. Let's imagine some points Ted Nugent might make during that session.
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Obama fast-tracks part of Keystone XL pipeline (+video)
After rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline proposal in January, President Obama gives a green light to its southern leg – a bid to ease a key bottleneck to new oil supplies and defuse critics on gas prices.
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Change Agent Tacugama gives sanctuary to chimpanzees - through war and peace
Even an 11-year civil war couldn't stop Bala Amarasekaran from rescuing and rehabilitating chimps in Sierra Leone.
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10 best fiction books of 2011
From an unnamed Balkan landscape to a baseball diamond at a small Midwestern college to an alternate universe, the fiction offerings of 2011 ranged far and wide. Here are the 10 that our Monitor reviewers found to be the most outstanding.
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Advice from a job creator: Bring on the optimism, Obama
This CEO of a small business says the most important thing Obama can do is break the cycle of fear with a message of optimism. Fear works on businesses like winter. They freeze hiring.
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"Once Upon a River," by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Campbell's plucky heroine, Margo, carves out her own epic on the Stark and Kalamazoo rivers.
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3 more 2010 novels you don't want to miss
Crumbling ruins loom large in this late 2010 fiction roundup: There's a castle haunted by a madwoman and a mystery, a derelict race track that's the setting for this year's National Book Award-winner, and a once-stately manor home that now houses the insane and infirm.
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How well do you know Derek Jeter? Take our quiz
Longtime Yankees shortstop and captain Derek Jeter finalized a three-year, $51 million deal with the Bronx Bombers on Tuesday. Jeter is in some pretty select Yankee company, when it comes to records and all. Take our quiz and see how well you know the 11-time All-Star. Answers are revealed on subsequent pages.
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2010 National Book Awards: more surprises
The 2010 National Books Awards included a few unexpected moments.
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Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of November 15, 2010
Readers write in about issues of food safety, Britain's budget cuts, and help for Pakistan's landless poor.
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Freedom
Jonathan Franzen’s latest is already the year’s biggest novel.
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Michigan oil leak polluting Kalamazoo River; Governor declares disaster area
Michigan oil leak is not on the same scale as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But it is causing concern in southern Michigan.
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Obama at Kalamazoo Central High School: How did it win the honor?
Kalamazoo Central High School beat out more than 1,000 applicants to win the Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. Obama delivers the school's graduation speech Monday night.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 05/04
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Kalamazoo high school grads win celebrity speaker: President Obama
Kalamazoo Central High School beat out more than 1,000 schools to win the Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge.
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Classic review: Suite Française
Two novellas deliver a sharp, ironic view of the Nazi occupation of France - written as it was taking place.
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Obama signs jobs bill, but how much will it help?
The jobs bill will create 200,000 jobs at most, estimates at least one economist. Obama signed the jobs bill in a Rose Garden ceremony Thursday.
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Obama directs $250 million for science and math education
New funding will increase the number of science, technology, engineering, and math teachers. The goal is to improve US students' mediocre ranking in math and science performance.
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Google: Free WiFi at airports this holiday season
Google's free WiFi at 47 airports kicks off today, and runs through January 15.
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Classic book review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
There's still every reason to be wild about Harry.
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Seven steps to reviving Michigan
Reliance on the beleaguered auto industry is out. But what to do? Economic sages weigh in.
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