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• Laura Bush says she'll mostly 'miss the people'
The first lady spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press" in a taped interview that focused largely on her advocacy for women and girls in Afghanistan. She encouraged Americans not to forget about Afghanistan, particularly as the militant Taliban, which ...
• ND reports more than half its high school classes have highly ...
A new report is out on the percentage of high school classes taught by highly qualified teachers. The report comes from the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group. It looked at whether teachers are certified in the subjects they teach. The ...
• Presidential ping-pong over executive orders
Environmental advocacy groups like the Audubon Society want Obama to ban offshore oil or gas drilling off the Pacific or Atlantic coasts. Bush lifted an executive ban on such drilling last July, and Congress later let a legislatively-imposed ban lapse
• Video: White House  
Jon Soltz, an Iraq war veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, a veterans advocacy group, said his group has been hard on the Bush administration but holds respect for Gates. "He comes across as very honest, and has a lot of humility," Soltz said. And ...
• $672 a month gets little help from food stamps
Maura Daly, Feeding America’s vice president for government relations and advocacy, said that as vital as the food-stamp program is to combating hunger, it has many barriers. Overall, just 67 percent of eligible recipients get food stamps ...