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A growing number of parents are choosing to start their children in kindergartin a year late, figuring their kids will have a better chance of being at the top of their class if they're older than most of their classmates. In some affluent communities, a government report found,as many as 20 percent of eligible kindergartners are held back.
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The U.S. would have to spend at least $94 billion just to detain and remove the nations estimated 12 million illegal immigrants,Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Juli Myers told Congress last week.That figure does not include the larely unknowable cost of actually tracking down and arresting the illegal immigrants,or court proceedings.
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Between 10 percent to 20 percent of all returning veterans of the war in Iraq have suffered a previosly unidentified form of brain damage as a result of close encounters with roadside bombs,pentagon scientists say.
Powerful pressure waves from the blast can cause microscopic cell damage to the brains of soldiers who aren't visibly injured,leading to delayed memory problems,scattered thinking and constant headaches. "This is a new beast," said brain-injury specialist Alisa Gean.
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Powerful pressure waves from the blast can cause microscopic cell damage to the brains of soldiers who aren't visibly injured,leading to delayed memory problems,scattered thinking and constant headaches. "This is a new beast," said brain-injury specialist Alisa Gean.
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Fifty years after the Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game and moved to Los Angeles,nostalgia for the legendary team has generated more than 100 books,three major TV documentaries,and almost a thousand pieces of memorabilia for sale on eBay and the sports-memento market. Modell's Sporting Goods still sells 17 kinds of Brooklyn Dodgers caps.
USA Today
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Three-quarters of African American students attend schools that are more than 50 percent black or Latino,while the average white student goes to a school that is 80 percent white,according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Overall, schools are more segregated today than they were in 1970.
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