Starbucks is a great place (or not so great a place) to learn a lot about human nature and greed.The greed part was having to pay $3.65 for a latte. That nasty human nature part was sharing a table with a guy in a suit, with a computer and a cell phone. It's always amazing what total strangers will share with you (and those within earshot) while talking on their phones. Not that I was ease dropping but how could I help. He was loud and pretty proud of the way he screwed some folks during his nor...

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White House Report on the Crisis in Faith-Based Urban Schools   Inner-city faith-based schools have helped educate generations of low-income American students.  Yet, between the 1999–2000 and 2005–06 school years, this Nation lost nearly 1,200 of these faith-based schools, and those remaining had nearly 425,000 fewer students. To help address this growing crisis, the White House recently released a report, “Preserving a Critical National Asset: America&rsquo...

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