"Paul Barton of the Educational Testing Service estimated that about 90 percent of the differences among schools in average proficiency can be explained by five factors: number of days absent from school, number of hours spent watching television, number of pages read for homework, quantity and quality of reading material in the home, and the presence of two parents in the home."
- George Will
Baby-theft crisis in Bulgaria Greece has a very low birthrate and an unnecessarily complicated process for legal adoption, so babies are being both stolen and sold from Bulgaria to Greek parents. A tragic example of where bureaucracy stands in the way of justice.