CFK Weekly— Jan. 21, 2003
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NEW ON CONNECT FOR KIDS
**Finding Homes for Teens
**Action Center for Child Advocates
**Working to Rescue a Neglected River
HELP FOR FAMILIES IN A TROUBLED ECONOMY
**Republicans and Democrats Issue Stimulus Proposals
**The Big Fix: Stimulate But Watch the Red Ink
**The President’s Tax Proposal: First Impressions
**Take Action
STATE SHORTFALLS SHORTCHANGE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
**State of the States Looks Grim
**Some Senators Try to Pass State Fiscal Relief
**Federal Budget and the States
HIGHER EDUCATION: EXPENSIVE TICKET TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY
**Casey Family Scholars Program
**Challenging Times, Clear Choices
**From Poverty to Self-Sufficiency: The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare
Reform
**Administration Enters Brief against University of Michigan Diversity Admissions
**Higher Education Public Comments
STATES IMPLEMENTING “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND”
**State Budget Crises Threaten Education Spending
**States Object to New Rules without New Money
**States Rush to Prepare Education Plans
**Dept. of Ed Posts FY2002 Title I Allocations
WELFARE REFORM ON THE TABLE AGAIN
**White House TANF Proposals
**White House TANF Proposal Cuts Child Care Funds
HEALTHY KIDS, HEALTHY FAMILIES
**Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment
**School Lunches Bad for Your Health?
**“Getting Hurt by a Backpack—It May Not Be What You Think”
**Parents and Infants Sharing Beds
THINGS TO DO!
**Newbery and Caldecott Awards
**Job Shadow Day
**Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award
**How Will Low-Income Children and Families Fare?
**The School of the 21st Century Conference at Yale
**Read Across America, March 3
STATE HEALTH PROGRAMS “ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK”
**Millions Could Lose Health Coverage Cut by State Budget Crises
**Bipartisan Senators Want $20 Billion in State Budget Relief to Protect CHIP
**Medicaid Spending Growth: A 50-State Update for Fiscal Year 2003
**Medicaid Cuts Calculator
**Why Are States’ Medicaid Expenditures Rising?
LIFE AT SCHOOL
**Parents Need to Protect Recess
**No Free Lunch Without Proof
PROMISING PRACTICES IN LEARNING
**A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections
on Student Achievement
**A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Abecedarian Early Childhood Intervention
**Share Promising Practices in Afterschool
**Juvenile Offenders With Mental Health Disorders: Who Are They and What Do
We Do With Them?
FOCUS ON THE STATES
**State of the State Addresses
**Improving Oral Health
**State-by-State News
SUBCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE
NEW ON CONNECT FOR KIDS
**Finding Homes for Teens
More than one-quarter of the children in foster care are teenagers. Finding
adoptive homes for these children isn’t easy, but three adoption workers
in Brooklyn, New York, have taken up the challenge by starting You Gotta Believe!,
an agency that works exclusively with youth ages 10 and up. Rachel Blustain
looks at how they do it.
http://www.connectforkids.org/content1552/content_show.htm?attrib_id=309&doc_id=143550
**Action Center for Child Advocates
Many national organizations have online action centers that explain policy priorities
for kids and families. Connect for Kids has assembled links to organizations'
legislative agendas to view and learn how to stay involved.
http://www.connectforkids.org/resources3139/resources_show.htm?doc_id=123948
**Working to Rescue a Neglected River
The Los Angeles River looks like a storm drain and sometimes smells like a sewer.
But for hundreds of local students, it’s an unparalleled outdoor classroom,
thanks to the L.A. River School program. This story is from What Kids Can Do.
http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/benton_topics_show.htm?doc_id=143568
HELP FOR FAMILIES IN A TROUBLED ECONOMY
Families do better if they have a good job and can keep it. A debate is raging in Washington, DC, over how to boost jobs and economic growth, and at what price? Led by the White House, conservatives who once championed a balanced budget are now contending that deficits don’t matter—not just small deficits for the short term to help jumpstart the economy, but even big deficits locked in for the long term. At the same time, the White House is insisting on limiting discretionary spending to help keep deficits from growing too large.
This dramatic shift in the debate over long-term deficit spending presents challenges and opportunities for child advocates. Advocates are asking, “If deficits don’t matter, then why should funding for schools, housing, child care and job training have to pass the ‘Where will you get the money?’ test any more than increased spending for tax cuts, homeland security or war? If we can afford billions in permanent tax cuts, why can’t we afford to fix our schools?”
**Republicans and Democrats Issue Stimulus Proposals
The White House argues for its jobs and growth plan.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/economy/
Democratic Governors and Democrats in the House of Representatives have each
put together plans for boosting job growth in the slow economy that are designed
to work quickly without locking in high costs for the future.
http://www.democraticgovernors.org/press/releases/release20030109.html
http://www.house.gov/budget_democrats/
**The Big Fix: Stimulate But Watch the Red Ink
Rudolph Penner’s December column reviews the shifting debate from the
perspective of a conservative, and cautions against proceeding too far into
the red. On January 14, in response to Connect for Kids questions, Penner said
he did not think the White House “jobs and growth” package was worth
the price tag.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/research/Topic.cfm?PubID=900577
**The President’s Tax Proposal: First Impressions
The President’s high-priced “jobs and growth” plan will not
help jumpstart the economy during the current slump and will lock in huge costs
over the next ten years that will deepen our debt and slow economic growth,
argues William Gale of the Brookings/Urban Institute Tax Policy Center.
http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/gale/20030109.htm
**Take Action
Saying the Bush tax package is too costly and would do little to stimulate the
weak economy and create jobs, the Fair Taxes for All Coalition is calling for
progressive organizations to sign onto a short “Statement of Principles.”
The statement aims to guide Congressional action on a plan that offers short-term
stimulus that is fiscally responsible and fair, aid to states to help respond
to their fiscal crises and help for people who will spend the money now, without
undermining future economic health. Contact Ann Woolston at 202-467-2317 or
awoolston@pfaw.org for information.
Moving Ideas Network has a fact sheet for activists.
http://www.movingideas.org/blitz/
STATE SHORTFALLS SHORTCHANGE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
**State of the States Looks Grim
Defined in strictly fiscal terms, 2002 was the worst year for the states since
the deep recession of the early 1980s, according to Stateline.org. With the
fiscal year just half over, budgets at year’s end were deeply in deficit
in 31 states, and tax revenues were running behind projections in 33 states
tracked by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
http://www.stateline.org/SOSTS_02_BroWEB_FIN.pdf
**Some Senators Try to Pass State Fiscal Relief
Senators Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Nelson (D-Neb.) and Collins (R-Maine) re-introduced
a “fiscal relief” bill on January 9th with a price tag of $20 billion—$10
billion for Medicaid FMAP and $10 billion for the Social Services Block Grant.
In a separate proposal, Senator Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member of the Senate
Finance Committee, proposed $75 billion in one-time revenue sharing for states
as part of an overall stimulus plan.
http://rockefeller.senate.gov/2003/pr010903.html
http://baucus.senate.gov/~baucus/Press/03/01/2003113A40.html
**Federal Budget and the States
The wrangling in Washington over budget allocations may seem far removed from
states and communities, but state budgets can be hurt or helped by federal decisions.
On average, 21 percent of the typical state budget comes from the federal government.
Get a fact sheet for your state from the National Priorities Project.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget/sos2003/index.html
HIGHER EDUCATION: EXPENSIVE TICKET TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY
**Casey Family Scholars Program
The Casey Family Scholars Program, administered by the Orphan Foundation of
America, provides scholarships and support for young people who have spent a
year or more in foster care so they can pursue vocational training or a college
education. http://www.orphan.org/OFACaseyscholarship.html
**Challenging Times, Clear Choices
The College Board is calling for increased need-based financial aid for low-income
college students, as the costs of college increase and financial aid targets
shift away from this population. Specific recommendations include substantially
increasing Pell Grant funding, improving terms under federally funded loans
available to students, and assuring that the growth of “merit” programs
is not at the expense of need-based funding.
http://www.collegeboard.com/press/article/0,3183,20790,00.html
**From Poverty to Self-Sufficiency: The Role of Postsecondary Education
in Welfare Reform
The Center for Women Policy Studies documents how Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) aid for mothers seeking a college degree can make the critical
difference in their lifetime earnings.
http://www.centerwomenpolicy.org/report_download.cfm?ReportID=75
**Administration Enters Brief against University of Michigan Diversity
Admissions
The Bush Administration has submitted a legal brief opposing University of Michigan’s
admissions procedures, which use race as a factor in admitting a diverse class
into their undergraduate and law schools.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/017/nation/Administration_urges_race_neutral_method+.shtml
Background information on the University of Michigan case is online from Education
Week.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=15affirm.h22
**Higher Education Public Comments
The Higher Education Act is up for reauthorization in 2003. Public comments
on such issues as eliminating unnecessary burdens on students or institutions
while maintaining accountability can be submitted on or before February 28.
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/proprule/2002-4/122002d.html
STATES IMPLEMENTING “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND”
**State Budget Crises Threaten Education Spending
Funding for schools and education constitutes a large share of state budgets—so
when states face shortfalls, schools face cutbacks. According to Education Week,
42 states are facing budget deficits totaling between $60 and $85 billion, twice
as large as those faced during the recession of the early 1990s.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=18fuller.h22&keywords=funding
**States Object to New Rules Without New Money
When the “No Child Left Behind” regulations were finally published,
state education leaders said inadequately funded provisions, especially those
requiring extensive testing of children, amount to a massive unfunded mandate,
reports Stateline.org’s annual “State of the States.”
http://www.stateline.org/SOSTS_02_BroWEB_FIN.pdf
**States Rush to Prepare Education Plans
Forty-three states risk running up against the Jan. 31 deadline for submitting
to the U.S. Department of Education plans that lay out how their schools will
meet strict new federal education standards. So far, only seven states have
submitted plans. http://www.stateline.org/story.do?storyId=282360
**Dept. of Ed Posts FY2002 Title I Allocations
Title I—the largest elementary and secondary education program—supplements
state and local funding for low-achieving children, especially in high-poverty
schools. You can find Federal Title I allocations for your school district,
as well as estimated amounts available for choice-related transportation and
supplemental educational services.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/TitleILEAs/FY02allocations/index.html
WELFARE REFORM ON THE TABLE AGAIN
**White House TANF Proposals
On January 14, President Bush called for many of the same proposals passed by
the House of Representatives a year ago for reauthorizing the Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families (TANF), but decided not to include many of the family-friendly
work supports and job advancement proposals included in the Senate Finance package.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030114-4.html#6
**White House TANF Proposal Cuts Child Care Funds
The president’s TANF proposal freezes funding for basic assistance, welfare-to-work
programs and child care for the next five years with no adjustment for inflation,
while imposing expensive new mandates on states, according to this Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities analysis.
http://www.cbpp.org/1-14-03tanf.htm
HEALTHY KIDS, HEALTHY FAMILIES
**Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment
The result of a three-year project to develop guidelines for the treatment of
families experiencing physical or sexual abuse, this report describes the development
of a rating system for classifying clinical protocols, summarizes 24 commonly
used treatment protocols, and offers a set of 22 general guidelines for treatment.
http://www.musc.edu/cvc/guide1.htm
**School Lunches
Bad for Your Health?
Lucrative contracts with fast food chains are causing school lunch programs
to contribute to the problems of poor nutrition and eating habits, instead of
solving problems of hunger, according to this article, “Unhappy Meals,”
in the January/February issue of Mother Jones Magazine.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/02/ma_207_01.html
**“Getting Hurt by a Backpack—It May Not Be What You Think”
This article from Health and Health Care in Schools says adults concerned about
backpack injuries should pay attention not only to how much weight kids are
carrying, but also on making sure they have safe places to store their backpacks
to avoid tripping and avoid hitting others.
http://www.healthinschools.org/ejournal/2003/jan03_4.htm
**Parents and Infants Sharing Beds
Bed sharing—the practice of letting babies sleep in an adult bed with
a parent or caregiver—is increasing in the United States, according to
a study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD). While proponents claim benefits, such as more and longer periods of
breastfeeding, there are hidden hazards in letting babies sleep on adult beds,
including falls, suffocation, and getting trapped between the bed and a wall,
headboard or footboard.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/sids/
THINGS TO DO!
**Newbery and Caldecott Awards
Every January the American Library Association recognizes outstanding children’s
books with the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. Find a good book for a child or
neighbor!
http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
**Job Shadow Day
Forget the groundhog and take on a kid. Find out how you can participate in
Job Shadow 2003, which kicks off on January 31.
http://www.jobshadow.org
**Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award
Service-learning—connecting community service with academic studies to
improve school performance, cultivate tolerance and civic responsibility, and
enhance job-readiness—is used in about one-third of all U.S. schools and
a growing number of community organizations. The Good Neighbor Service-Learning
Award offers funds to teachers and young people ages 5 to 25 to implement service-learning
projects for National Youth Service Day 2003 (which is actually three days,
from April 11-13, 2003). Deadline for award submissions is Feb. 28.
http://www.ysa.org/pdffiles/2003_Good_Neighbor_Guidelines.pdf
**How Will Low-Income Children and Families Fare?
The Center on Law and Social Policy’s audio-conference series will kick
off with a January 24, 2003, call on the states’ fiscal crises and federal
budget developments. Guests include Frank Shafroth from the National Governor’s
Association and Bob Greenstein from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
http://www.clasp.org/Audio/Audio_Home
**The School of the 21st Century Conference at Yale
Do you have expertise to share about school-based or school-linked child care
and family support programs? Yale University is taking proposals to present
a workshop at this July conference.
Deadline: January 24, 2003. If you have any questions about the presentations,
please send an e-mail to yale21C@yale.edu
or call (203) 432-9944.
http://www.yale.edu/21c/train/conf/conf.html
**Read Across America, March 3
Calendars, pamphlets and resources in Spanish are in the toolkit for the March
3rd Read Across America celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday.
http://www.nea.org/readacross/
Find out more events and activities with a visit to the Connect for Kids calendar.
http://www.connectforkids.org/calendar1569/calendar.htm
STATE HEALTH PROGRAMS “ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK”
**Millions Could Lose Health Coverage Cut by State Budget Crises
Huge state deficits totaling $50 billion this year have landed health programs
for the poor “on the chopping block.”
http://coveringtheuninsured.org/news/index.php?NewsID=147
**Bipartisan Senators Want $20 Billion in State Budget Relief to Protect
CHIP
When Senate negotiators last week failed to protect funding for children’s
health care in the Omnibus Appropriations bill, Senators Rockefeller (D-W.Va.),
Snowe (R-Maine) and Chafee (R-R.I.) filed an amendment to put $2.7 billion in
unspent Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funds back into the
program’s coffers so it will be available to states to protect a million
children at risk of losing their health insurance coverage.
http://rockefeller.senate.gov/2003/pr010903.html
**Medicaid Spending Growth: A 50-State Update for Fiscal Year 2003
With healthcare costs increasing, revenues decreasing, and Medicaid costs averaging
20 percent of states’ budgets, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study
reported that virtually every state is likely to cut Medicaid eligibility and/or
services. This Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured report shows
that 49 states have planned or implemented Medicaid cuts in fiscal year 2003,
and 32 of them have taken such action twice.
http://www.kff.org/content/2003/20030113/4082.pdf
**Medicaid Cuts Calculator
Cutting Medicaid will not only affect family health, but also the bottom line.
This Families USA report computes how current Medicaid cut proposals will affect
each state’s business activities, jobs, and wages.
http://www.familiesusa.org
**Why Are States’ Medicaid Expenditures Rising?
This Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report argues that Medicaid cost
increases are not a sign that Medicaid spending is out of control but rather
are symptomatic of demographic changes and spiraling health costs affecting
both the private and the public sector.
http://www.cbpp.org/1-13-03health.pdf
LIFE AT SCHOOL
**Parents Need to Protect Recess
In schools across the country recess is being scrapped—to give more time
to academics and to protect schools from liability. In this op-ed, “Is
Recess A Necessity or Hindrance?” commentator Meg Grooms argues that it
is very important for children to experience free play with others in a supervised
situation, regardless of what schools are saying.
http://schoolreform.bellaonline.com/articles/art7428.asp
**No Free Lunch Without Proof
The Bush administration is considering requiring parents applying for free and
reduced-price school meals to submit proof of income. Anti-hunger advocates
are concerned that such requirements could cause eligible children to lose out,
according to the San Mateo County Times article, “President planning school
lunch restrictions.”
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87%257E11268%257E1080443,00.html
PROMISING PRACTICES IN LEARNING
**A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community
Connections on Student Achievement
Researchers analyzing 51 studies conclude that “when schools,
families, and community groups work together to support learning, children tend
to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more.”
Print copies available at 800-476-6861.
http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/evidence.pdf
**A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Abecedarian Early Childhood Intervention
In the increasingly difficult economic and political climate, advocates are
pressed to justify the costs of programs for children by demonstrating positive
outcomes and in public money saved. Here is Promising Practices’ summary
of such an analysis of the Abecedarian early learning program, which showed
a 4-to-1 bottom line return on the public investment.
http://nieer.org/docs/index.php?DocID=57
**Share Promising Practices in Afterschool
Promising Practices in Afterschool wants your input. Check out promising practices,
or share your own in community and family involvement, staff and training, financing,
research and evaluation or policy and advocacy. Deadline: Feb. 7, 2003
http://www.afterschool.org
**Juvenile Offenders With Mental Health Disorders: Who Are They and
What Do We Do With Them?
This American Correctional Association guidebook helps professionals identify
and manage juvenile offenders who have mental health problems, including depression,
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and developmental disorders. Cost:
$34.95
http://www.aca.org/publications/new_mentalhealth.pdf
FOCUS ON THE STATES
**State of the State Addresses
The Education Commission of the States is posting summaries of what
each governor is saying about education in his/her State of the State address.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm
**Improving Oral Health
Teach families good habits, but also strengthen the dental workforce and increase
dental coverage and access for budget-strapped families—that’s what
the National Governors Association recommends in this Best Practices report.
http://www.nga.org/center/frontAndCenter/1,1188,C_FRONT_CENTER^D_4719,00.html
**State-by-State News
Arizona
Governor Napolitano outlined her principles for fixing the state’s budget
deficit, stating it is crucial to balance the budget without cutting education
or children’s services. She sees improving education as the top priority
because Arizona has the nation’s highest dropout rate, spends fewer dollars-per-pupil
than most other states, and has overcrowded schools with increasing enrollments.
http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/html/newsMedia/e-Connection.asp%23ep
California
Governor Davis says his proposed budget aims to protect the progress made in
public education to the extent possible.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm
Georgia
Program administrators and staff need to think “outside the box”
to help hard-to-employ TANF recipients in transitional employment programs,
concludes “Georgia GoodWorks!: Transitional Work and Intensive Support
for TANF Recipients Nearing the Time Limit,” published by Mathematica
Policy Research Inc.
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/PDFs/redirect.asp?strSite=goodworks.pdf
Idaho
Governor Kempthorne is exempting K-12 and postsecondary education from budget
cuts in 2002. The governor proposed two new taxes as a means of maintaining
a balanced budget that will address critical issues such as funding for school
facilities.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm
Indiana
Grant County, Indiana, saw a 27 percent jump in the number of residents receiving
food stamps and a 65 percent jump in the number of people receiving TANF funds
in 2001. The county has received a $45,413 grant through the Emergency Food
and Shelter National Board Program for local agencies, according to this article,
“County gets emergency food funds.”
http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/news/stories/20021228/localnews/661921.html
In his State of the State address, Governor O’Bannon says Indiana must
continue to urge the federal government to fully fund the “No Child Left
Behind” initiative. O’Bannon’s proposed budget provides no
new spending for most areas of government, including education, even though
he acknowledged public schools and postsecondary institutions are being asked
to accomplish more without increased resources.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm
Kentucky
The governor’s goal is to not cut any education programs; however, current
state revenue will not fully fund the basic per-pupil-in-average-daily-attendance
appropriation or increased postsecondary enrollments.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm#KY
Mississippi
Mississippi has become the first state to have an online computer in each of
its public school classrooms, according to a spokesman for Governor Ronnie Musgrove.
http://www.ecs.org/e-Connection-ws
Governor Musgrove said education must be Mississippi’s top priority because
communities with good schools attract good jobs. Musgrove asked the legislature
to approve his education budget appropriation that invests 62 percent of the
general fund in pre-K through postsecondary education and to approve it as one
appropriation before the end of January.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm#MS
New Jersey
Governor McGreevey outlined efforts to improve literacy, the state’s top
education priority, including placing reading coaches in 80 elementary schools
and starting the Governor’s Book Club to encourage student reading.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm#NJ
New York
On January 8, Governor Pataki delivered his 2003 State of the State Address
saying security will be the only item in his budget that will be untouched.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm#NY
Children’s Defense Fund New York Executive Director Donna A. Lawrence
responded to Pataki’s speech, saying that the programs that support New
York’s children cannot be the cuts that solve the state budget crisis.
Even in tough economic times, protecting children with health care, safe child
care, after-school programs and a quality education must still be New York’s
top priority.
http://www.cdfny.org/
North Dakota
Governor Hoeven committed to making education an integral part of the state’s
economic development plan and making educators partners in keeping young people
in the state.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm
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Texas
The Center for Public Policy Priorities has just released a new Policy Page
detailing what it calls the Texas budget quagmire.
http://www.cppp.org/products/PP178.html
Virginia
Governor Warner’s budget provides $65 million in additional state funding
for public education, and Warner said he would not sign a budget that cuts education
resources.
http://www.ecs.org/html/statesTerritories/State_of_States2003.htm
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin consistently ranks at the bottom of the states in providing breakfast
to students through the School Breakfast Program. Jon Janowski, of the Hunger
Task Force of Milwaukee, is campaigning to increase the number of schools participating
in the federal program. Obstacles include: early start times, buses arriving
too late for students to eat, too little time for eating, and a lack of awareness
about the value of breakfast.
http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2002/12/30/newscolumn1.html
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