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Universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations. Yet little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary and secondary education intended to accomplish? This book, which grew out of a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, offers diverse views fro...

The subject is drugs. The characters are loathsome. The first female governor of New York, herself the daughter of a notorious organized crime Don, has made up her mind to rid New York City of illegal drugs. She claims that all politicians before her have paid only lip service to the problem, and that what is needed is an actual act of war. Using the Posse Comitatus Act of 1870 she tries to convince legislators that she is acting correctly whe...

The subject is drugs. The characters are loathsome. The first female governor of New York, herself the daughter of a notorious organized crime Don, has made up her mind to rid New York City of illegal drugs. She claims that all politicians before her have paid only lip service to the problem, and that what is needed is an actual act of war. Using the Posse Comitatus Act of 1870 she tries to convince legislators that she is acting correctly whe...

This is a story of how a small group of people made a transformation from Jew to Jewish American to American Jews. It is not unlike the transformation and Americanization of other peoples. How it differs is from the very fact that a religion, a set of beliefs transformed into a nationality. It is about a period of time in one woman's life, my mother who was a blend of Europe and America. She was a mixture of ethnicity, culture, religion and Am...

On a dark moonless night a cruise ship carrying over two thousand passenger's glides through the waters of the Southern Caribbean Ocean. People are dining, drinking, dancing and enjoying their vacations. Speeding towards the ship in a small rubber raft are four men who are dressing in scuba gear. In the raft with them are high energy explosives. A secret council hidden under the desert in Saudi Arabia has given Yusaf Yadallah, the leader of th...

Experts illuminate the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education, discussing the importance and difficulties not only of expanding access to education and but also of improving the quality of education.

Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. This book offers diverse views from experts around the world on the purposes of universal education.

It is mid 2010. The country has been swept by a MUTANT AIDS epidemic and is recovering from nuclear strikes. The political climate of our government is one wherein great efforts are being made to include all countries of the world under the protection of the Interspatial Defense Shield. The need for a defense industry is disappearing. A few countries wish to remain autonomous and refuse to join the alliance. United States Senators Saul Goldsmi...