It's going to be a very difficult decision for the local school boards to deal with

"It's going to be a very difficult decision for the local school boards to deal with."At least half the states will have mandatory high school exit exams by 2009. Mortuary specialists were carting bodies away from New Orleans' drying streets, from an abandoned city hospital and a warehouse in the dockside town of Chalmette.Juliette Saussy, director of emergency medical services for the city of New Orleans, said hundreds of corpses had been removed from the city.Told by other public health officials that the final death count could approach 10,000, Saussy declined to make her own forecast as long as "the water is obscuring some of the bodies."Army Corps of Engineers officials said the city remained 60% flooded, but some areas, like parts of the once-inundated 9th Ward, were now nearly dry. said it planned to restate more than a decade of results by about $59 million to account for expenses from options grant backdating.An internal probe found employees didn't intentionally date grants to when the company's stock traded lower, inflating their value, El Segundo-based Computer Sciences said. Schiavo's name was invoked Sunday night.Since April, three judicial nominees who were then in contention for the federal bench -- Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla R Owen and William H Pryor Jr. Government officials mostly looked the other way; the concentration of need and crime in a few filthy square blocks might have represented a humanitarian disaster, but at least the problem was "contained" to one area.Now the housing market is doing what government revival efforts couldn't. The joke would have fallen flat.The sadder truth is that I can imagine an epilogue to my story.The United States is hit by an even more devastating and lethal terrorist attack.On that day, can I confidently say that there will not be a knock at my door and that two men, one tall and gangly, the other short and beefy, will not ask me if I recall spreading lies about their efforts to fight the war on terrorism? And that they will not demand that I accompany them, just for a few hours, for some routine questioning?But I quickly discovered that some took my whimsical literary invention way too seriously. When he averaged 31 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and shot 53% in the second round against Washington, he joined Bird as the only players to do it twice in the same postseason.And just when it appeared the Detroit Pistons had brought Wade back to the mortal plane by holding him to 16 points on seven-for-25 shooting in the first game of the Eastern Conference finals, Wade responded with 40 points, eight rebounds and six assists to lead the Heat to victory in Game 2.Wade playing while Bryant's team didn't qualify for the postseason gives him the edge right now.

says the city investment is worthwhile because it makes possible an entertainment district that will "create a live and vibrant environment for bringing people to downtown Los Angeles."Board Vice Chairman Shu Kwan Woo said he was satisfied that the city's involvement was justified to make the project pencil out. But Tuesday's results showed that outsiders with almost no hands-on experience in the business proved to be better judges of the storytelling craft than an array of studio executives with decades of experience inside the industry.Conservative critics claim the box-office performance of the more provocative films that turned up on Tuesday's nominee list is proof that Hollywood is out of touch with mainstream America. They listened intently to the testimony of two injured soldiers and the wife of a third. "I hope that when the dust settles, we have a partner for pursuing the endgame.... A center soffit with a frosted-panel skylight and dimming bulbs provides soft illumination.Museum-quality spotlights beam onto a graceful metal sculpture of a woman standing on an otherwise vacant counter, something else you don't expect to see in a kitchen."The color of the kitchen sets the stage for elegance, whether you're having a cocktail or eating your cereal," Schomisch says.

"She began to create a new identity narrative," writes Greenberg, "one in which she was worthy and had unfairly suffered abuse at the hands of cruel parents." That emotional rewiring left her "open to learn to love" again, he writes.Shani Robins, president of the Institute for Wisdom Therapy in San Diego, also draws on evolutionary psychology in his therapy -- a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness meditation, training in humility, and psycho-education.Understanding the evolutionary origin of problems can help patients put them in perspective, he says. 28, 2003, to August 2006.There are two tricks to this.First, some phone companies lump several taxes together on their bills, so you may have to call to find out what portion of your "federal tax" relates to the eliminated excise tax.Second, you would be required to fill out Form 8913 and send it in with your 1040. Despite this month's airport terrorism scare, at least one major benefit for business travelers seems to be moving ahead: faster trips through security. Leon Phillips, who said Perez was five months pregnant.Perez's young children, a boy and a girl, were not home at the time.

The Lancaster-based real estate agent sees firsthand the vitality of the county's housing market. USC's sports information office, clarifying information it disseminated to the media Saturday, said the 18-point deficit the Trojans overcame against Arizona State equaled the largest deficit the Trojans overcame for victory since 1974. Restructuring the partnerships will also cut the family's potential tax burden from the sale of any assets.Tribune Chairman and Chief Executive Dennis J. Another highlight is snowy halibut carpaccio with dustings of pink peppercorn and chives in a light ponzu perfumed almost imperceptibly with white truffle oil. All I wanted to find out was if I could become a faster, fitter cyclist. As many as 90% of Afghanistan's police chiefs are reportedly involved in or protecting the drug trade. AP broke the "Earhart missing" story from Honolulu, quoting Coast Guard officials.Meanwhile, Carey filled the diary: "Itasca set off 'full speed ahead' to search the northwest quadrant off Howland."Nothing was sighted, and by evening the ship's mood, Carey wrote, had "taken a turn to the more serious side."Many theoriesSeventy years later, the Earhart mystery persists.In more than 50 nonfiction books and even a movie, writers embraced theories including a crash at sea, abduction by aliens, execution by the Japanese as a spy, even living under another name in New Jersey.Two books -- "Amelia's Shoes," written by four TIGHAR volunteers, and Gillespie's "Finding Amelia" -- suggest that Earhart and Noonan crash-landed on a Gardner Island reef, surviving perhaps for months on scant food and rainwater.Expeditions to the island, now called Nikumaroro, have compiled tantalizing evidence.In 1940, a British overseer on Gardner recovered a partial human skeleton, a woman's shoe and an empty sextant box at what apparently was a former campsite.

A judge convicted a Rwandan rebel of killing eight foreign tourists in 1999, including an Oregon couple on a gorilla-watching trip.Jean-Paul Bizimana, alias Xavier Van Dame, could face the death penalty.Three other men were arrested in March 2003 in connection with the killings and have been sent to the United States to stand trial in the deaths of the two Americans, Rob Haubner and Susan Miller of Portland.Rebels hacked and bludgeoned the travelers in a remote rain forest near Uganda's borders with Congo and Rwanda.. I realized then that I had driven her away."Tsumagoi, whose name sounds like the words "wife love" in Japanese, is marketing itself as a romantic destination for married couples.Last year, it invited couples to an event called "Shout Your Love from the Middle of a Cabbage Patch." Husbands took turns hollering romantic messages against a backdrop of Tsumagoi's wide open fields. Open champion, was at 11 under after a career-best round of 61 that included 11 birdies, seven on the back nine.His previous best round was 62 at the 1991 Hawaiian Open. members of the public did not have their assigned police car handling calls."When Druyun's actions became known to his wife, Kroeber wrote, it made an "otherwise dysfunctional marriage that much more tumultuous." That, he wrote, resulted in a domestic violence incident.Those "domestic problems," Kroeber added, took a toll on Druyun's attendance and work performance. The kinds of things you want to buy most of the time are gone."Instead, stores are stocking wares of a different stripe. The judge said Shuster, who previously lived in New Jersey, had been cooperating with prosecutors.