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Subject: [BPR] - Home Schooling Continues to Grow
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 07:25:12 -0500

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* HOME SCHOOLING CONTINUES TO GROW: Today's edition
of the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story
about the growth of home scholing, with a headline
that said, "Home-Schooled Pupils Are Making Colleges
Sit Up and Take Notice." Home schoolers are
disproportionately among the top scorers on SAT
college-admissions tests, according to the story. The
paper says there were 700,000 home schoolers in 1996
and there may be 1.5 million now. And it adds, "Though
home-schooling may never be feasible for most
families, the data offer little comfort to those who
advocate a standardized curriculum as the best hope
for improving American education. After all, each
home-based pupil follows a unique lesson plan."

The Morrock News Digest
http://morrock.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Pope to support Palestinian refugees in Holy Land
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:10:28 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

Pope to support Palestinian refugees in Holy Land

Pope John Paul will visit a Palestinian refugee camp in his historic Holy Land
pilgrimage next month.

   February 12, 2000, 02:55 PM

BETHLEHEM (Reuters) - Pope John Paul will visit a Palestinian refugee
camp in his historic Holy Land pilgrimage next month and back refugee
demands to return to their homes, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah said on
Saturday.

Sabbah, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Jerusalem, said the Pope
will tour Dheisheh refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the
traditional site of Jesus' birth, during his Holy Land visit from March 20 to 26.
"The Holy See will tell Palestinian refugees at the camp that you...have the
same dignity of other human beings, and your pains and suffering are part of
the general sufferings and pain we carry in our hearts," Sabbah told a
Bethlehem news conference.

He was speaking after a five-day meeting of the Catholic church's first synod
in the Holy Land to set a new agenda for the next decade.

"The fact that the Pope will visit the camp is to warn that this group of people
who live in unnatural conditions have to live in natural conditions like the
others, Palestinians and non-Palestinians," he said.

More than 700,000 Palestinians were driven out or fled during the Arab-Israeli
war in 1948. They became refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and
outside what was then Palestine.

Palestinians and Israelis are aiming to achieve a final status peace deal by
September which will decide sensitive issues including the fate of refugees,
Jerusalem, Jewish settlements, and borders.

Sabbah said the Catholic church maintained "that all refugees who were
expelled from their homes have the natural right to return to their homes and
land."

Palestinians demand the right of return of more than 3.6 million refugees
scattered around the world, or the right to compensation for those who prefer
not to return.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has said no Palestinian refugees will be
allowed to return to their homes and property which have become part of
Israel.

In a final declaration issued at the end of the synod, the Catholic church said
Christians, Jews and Muslims should enjoy equal religious rights in
Jerusalem and that Palestinians and Israelis had to share equal sovereignty
over the city.

Palestinians view Arab East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967
Middle East war, as the capital of a future independent state.

Vatican officials have said the 79-year-old Polish-born Pope would also visit
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, Judaism's holiest site, the
Western Wall, and al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine.

http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,ArabiaLife-13321,00.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Edupage items
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:16:02 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

CLINTON TO HOLD INTERNET SECURITY SUMMIT
President Clinton will hold an Internet-security meeting next
Tuesday with some of the major players in the industry to address
the recent attacks on some of the world's biggest Web sites.
Companies such as Yahoo!, eBay, America Online, and Microsoft are
said to have been invited to the summit, where they will meet
with President Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno, Commerce
Secretary William Daley, and National Security Adviser Samuel R.
Berger. The National Security Council is in charge of the
hastily organized meeting, leading analysts to speculate that the
government considers the recent attacks as bona-fide security
risks, not just economic disruption. The meeting is expected to
discuss whether the government should take a greater role in
regulating the Internet, as well as self-policing initiatives for
Internet firms. (Wall Street Journal, 11 Feb 2000)

NORTHWEST AIR PROBES PCS OF ATTENDANTS
Northwest Airlines last week began authorized searches of
computers in flight attendants' homes and union offices, hoping
to prove that the union or employees advocated a New Year's
sickout. The airline searched 20 systems before the searches
were suspended on Monday. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan of the
U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., authorized the searches
after Northwest sued the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
branch that represents the airline's flight attendants.
Northwest charged the union with pushing for a sickout that
resulted in 300 cancelled flights. Judge Boylan permitted
Northwest to copy the hard drives of up to 25 union officials and
flight attendants involved in the suit. Paul Levy of Ralph
Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group, asked by a defense
attorney to speak on behalf of two flight attendants, says "it is
unheard of" for employers to search workers' hard drives.
Meanwhile, Northwest attorney John J. Gallagher says federal laws
of civil procedure have "expressly provided for production and
searching of computers." (Wall Street Journal, 10 Feb 2000)

STATEWIDE VIDEO NETWORK TO LINK ALL SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOLS
South Dakota Governor Bill Janklow has unveiled the second phase
of the state's multimillion dollar partnership with U.S.
West--videoconferencing and data transfer technology that will
link students and teachers through a new state-wide intranet.
Janklow says U.S. West will install over $17 million worth of
technology over the next few months, at a deep discount for all
of South Dakota's school districts; the equipment is reportedly
being provided by 3Com, Gateway, Cisco, VTEL, and others. The
Digital Dakota Network will eventually connect all the K-12
public schools so they can share classes or connect to other
resources. Janklow says districts can get high-speed T1
connections to the Internet as well as real-time, broadcast
quality video. He also says the project will give students in
rural districts the same opportunities as those in bigger
schools. Schools will be able to share specialty classes, and
teachers will be able to transfer notes and use remote resources.
(eSchool News, February 2000)

EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Edupage, 11 February 2000

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