| Text of Napolitano address
There was no plan to give Arizona's children the early start they need and deserve. Teacher pay was lagging, and we weren't doing what was necessary to support our new teachers and keep our best educators in the classroom. Phoenix was the largest city in the nation without a university-based medical school and our state was not graduating enough students with college degrees to keep up with our growth.Fast-forward to today. We've created a new grade level by making full-day kindergarten available to every Arizona family. We've made historic investments in early childhood education and in teacher pay. We've broken ground on an all-new medical campus, tripled our contribution to student financial aid, and built up our universities.This is progress, and it is precisely where we needed to go.Now, we must move quickly this year to implement the voter-approved initiative aimed at early childhood.
Cool blue is the hot color of the moment
On the spring runways in New York last September, manicurists from Creative Nail Design used the frosty blue Turquoise Tint for Chris Han's show and custom-mixed tones of light blue for models at Karen Walker and Charlotte Ronson. In a recent GQ photo spread, Rihanna sported a robin's-egg-blue polish on her nails that threatened to pull focus from her skimpy gold Tomas Meier swimsuit. Sky, the Hard Candy shade made famous in 1995 when Alicia Silverstone name-dropped it on "Late Show With David Letterman," is also back on the market. But nostalgic fans hoping to score a bottle — with matching plastic ring — may have to do a bit of digging. Sephora, the line's exclusive purveyor, is sold out of the $7 color on its Web site. A similar shade, For Audrey by China Glaze ($6.50), nearly matches a Tiffany & Co.'s trademark color.
S P O R T S
Gangulys all-round heroics take India to verge of victory
New Delhi, November 25
India, needing 32 runs with seven wickets in hand, were within sniffing distance of victory at stumps on the fourth day of the first Test against Pakistan at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here today. Sourav Ganguly celebrates the dismissal of Pakistans Misbah-ul-Haq on the fourth day of the first Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Sunday. Reuters photo Sachin crosses Border, closes in on Lara
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar overtook Australian great Allan Border on Sunday to become the second highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket. Tendulkar, who is unbeaten on 32 in the second innings of Indias first Test against Pakistan at Ferozeshah Kotla, now tallies 11,183 runs in 141 Tests.
Senator Feingold Charts Course
But we agree that we ought to have a commission that allows three or four states to win a competition to become pilot projects to show their vision of how they can move toward universal coverage in their state. For some, it might be a single-payer state, it might be an employer coalition, co-op type of approach. He says health savings accounts; I'm skeptical of it. But the idea is that we would actually have some evidence on the ground of what works and what doesn't. This has all been a theoretical debate since, God knows, Harry Truman. And it goes nowhere. So we're excited about this. The Heritage Foundation has endorsed it, the Brookings Institution, the SEIU. The Heritage Foundation is very conservative. The SEIU might be the most liberal union. They all come together, saying, "You know, we think we can show our stuff with this kind of deal." On No Child Left Behind Act I'm been trying for years to try to modify it in some way, try to fix it, to make it less onerous.
Your views on the Green debate
Poll Results The Americans are ahead again. This time it's in their negative attitudes towards the "green imperative". We asked for your feedback in December and followed up with a quick poll in January. Our thanks to the 3,000 or so folk who responded. But what a stark contrast between North American respondents and the rest of the English-speaking world. Freeform Dynamics has analysed the responses to January's poll and discovered that the mood, by and large, is that "something must be done". But a significant dissenting minority exists in the US. Forty per cent of respondents there regard the "green imperative" as scaremongering or hype, compared with a 20.7 per cent average in the rest of the world. Take a look at the red bars in this chart: Among other things, web activity logs provide details of the browser and operating system being used, so Freeform made another cut according to the operating system being used.
On the trail of the Berlin Wall
I was in Germany during June 2007 along with 14 other professors from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Karnataka, for a training programme at the Bosch Rexroth plant in Lohr, near Frankfurt. After the hectic training programme, we got the much deserved break to relax for a couple of days and the unanimous choice was a visit to Berlin. The superfast inter-city express train took just about three and a half hours for the journey of nearly 500 km. We checked into a hotel near the railway station ‘Ostbahnhof’, that is, Berlin East Railway station. Frank called on us as soon as we checked into the hotel and we decided to go for the ‘Berlin Wall tour’. The 1.1 km stretch of the Wall near Ostbahnhof in Friedrichshain was at a walking distance from our hotel. We followed the pink umbrella held aloft by Frank in the light drizzle.
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