Stories from Friday, June 25, 2004

Nevada Daily Mail For years, summer school was only for those who needed extra help to get through those core classes. That's just not so any longer. Now, it's true that remedial and credit recovery classes are still offered, but many districts -- Nevada R-5 among them -- are offering opportunities for enrichment and credit for all students...

By Chuck Nash Special to the Daily Mail The world is divided between those people who adore the writer Ayn Rand and those who think her philosophy inane and foolish. You can put me in the second group. Since the 1930's, Rand has been writing puffed-up fiction "Atlas Shrugged; The Fountainhead" that purveys the philosophy she calls objectivism...

Special to the Daily Mail Newton Learning, a private company that helped the El Dorado Springs R-2 summer school students boost their test scores last year, is conducting the district's summer school program again this year. Last year, El Dorado Springs R-2 students posted a 78.26 percent improvement in communications arts and a 74.80 percent improvement in mathematics...

By David A. Lieb Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Adding to their federal challenge, Planned Parenthood affiliates filed a state lawsuit Thursday claiming a 24-hour-abortion-waiting law violates the Missouri Constitution. The lawsuit in Boone County Circuit Court echoes one of the claims in the pending federal case: that the law requiring doctors to confer with women seeking abortions is unconstitutionally vague...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Four people were injured in a wreck Thursday night at approximately 10:15, just west of Nevada on U.S. 54. Three of the four were flown to Joplin with serious injuries and one was taken to Nevada Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries...

Defending Our Liberty "Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that liberties are the gift of God?" --Thomas Jefferson Today, thousands of Missourians are stationed in Iraq and around the world, defending our nation's lives and liberties...

Gary Rust Missouri's concealed-weapon law apparently is on target, law officials say. Most of the following information is from an article by Wes Johnson in the May 25 Springfield (Mo.) News Leader. As reported in the article, St. Charles County had 549 applicants, Greene County (Springfield area), 483 applicants; Jefferson County, 470; Cape Girardeau County, 170; and Butler County, (Poplar Bluff) 164...

Dreamers have always taken mankind to the frontiers of knowledge and exploration. A dream team led by Burt Rutan, often described as an aeronautical genius, this week crossed into suborbital space (62 miles straight up) using technology developed by private entrepreneurs and spurred by a $10 million prize...

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