This may also be why so much of what they profess to like about America, such as social mobility, is out of date Another may be the simple fact of language. A few black children had benefited from a better education than they would have had locally; otherwise the policy had been counterproductive in every respect. There is no reason to believing that bussing would produce a different result here.So why is the Government even broaching this discredited formula? Why is no one looking across the Channel to other socialised states whose experience might be more applicable to Britain? Finland regularly tops the international league for school standards. Bussing ended in Boston and most other US cities in 1999, 25 years after it had begun.In those 25 years, schools in the mostly black inner cities had declined further and white families had moved out of city school districts altogether. Instead of better schooling for some, they demanded better neighbourhood schools for all. They asked, reasonably enough, why their children should be the ones to be bussed. It is not the only medical defence against a pandemic, but it is the drug of choice because it is easy to store and use.
One pill twice a day for five days, taken as soon as the symptoms of flu appear, should save lives. Pressure is growing on Roche, the manufacturer, to relax its patent on the drug and let other companies help to increase production. Yesterday's interim results show sales of Tamiflu doubled in the third quarter, helping to boost the company's profits by 20 per cent. In a global emergency, it is argued, humanitarian considerations must outweigh narrow concerns over intellectual property and company profits.. In times like these, the constant and the familiar provide welcome reassurance.
You get up, the hot water's still on the blink, the milk's sour, the bread's stale, that letter still hasn't arrived, that bill has, you've run out out of toothpaste, nothing's ironed, it's raining and Gwyneth Paltrow is complaining again. Down 96.1 to 5,167.8, it suffered a bigger one-day fall than on the day of the 7 July terror attacks. But it was the FTSE 250, the mid-cap index, where the worst losses were witnessed It fell 185 to 7,421.5. The AIM-listed Ocean Power Technologies is at the forefront of trying to commercialise wave power, so that the sea will provide a benign source of electricity.OPT has proprietary technology in its PowerBuoy, which has been undergoing development in sea water since 1997.
