Grappling with a budget shortfall caused by declining enrollment, trustees of Orange County's largest school district voted Tuesday to close two schools in June as part of a plan to cut $15.6 million in spending for the next school year.Closing Grant Elementary and Taft Intermediate schools will save the Santa Ana Unified School District $723,000 annually. Its first exhibition in the Nomadic Museum opened in March in New York City on the Hudson River Park's Pier 54. A mile down river are the caves where murderers and lovers hid.Twain's own story started 40 miles from here, in the tin-cup town of Florida. Subways and light rail are cost-prohibitive, and the growth of private car ownership is far outpacing the public funding needed to construct roads to accommodate them.Mexico City, for example, has around 3,500,000 registered vehicles, a category that has been growing by an average of almost 8% a year for a decade. Baltezore and Johnny Bradley.Recchion's score, with its post-Stockhausen harps and synthesized loops, is an asset So is the subtle sound design by Jones Taylor Jr. "It ought to be Americans first," one bioethicist told The Times.But the fact is, in the last year, foreigners living in the United States have donated organs to American patients in about the same proportion that they received transplants.

Those groups made roughly equal progress, leaving the gap about the same.Russlynn Ali, executive director of Education Trust-West, a public policy group that focuses on school reform, said the test results are "actually cause for great concern" because of the disparities."In this state we provide poor kids and kids of color less of everything research says makes a difference," Ali wrote in an analysis of the Standardized Testing and Reporting results. You just do."The Japanese-born artist has been based in the Los Angeles area since moving from Paris in 1978, but he rarely works locally, he said, in part because he feels unappreciated in his adopted hometown "The critics make fun of me, especially in L.A." he said "They don't think I'm a serious artist. It was the first major work he launched after finishing his master's degree at Otis College of Art and Design. It was also the seventh straight win for Pacific over Long Beach.Christian Maraker had 23 points and 11 rebounds for Pacific. Ambassador William Brownfield on several occasions this year.

companies contend are costing them billions of dollars in lost sales, and to stop holding down the value of their currency in relation to the dollar.The administration is under growing political pressure to show progress in dealing with a soaring trade deficit with China that critics say has contributed to the loss of nearly 3 million manufacturing jobs since 2000.The administration said China also had agreed to begin negotiations to join an agreement administered by the World Trade Organization that governs the standards foreign firms must meet when bidding for government contracts. I AM A BASEBALL historian, an occupation that, by custom and usage, is not generally accepted by those whose professions are either baseball or history. It's telling that Strausbaugh dismisses many black auteurs and critics, from Spike Lee to Donald Bogle, as overly sensitive, touchy or "dicty." He grumbles about multiculturalism and Afrocentrism being the inverse of racism: a common conservative plaint. Nobody gives a [darn]."White Sox GM Kenny Williams, rallying the semi-faithful as their Southsiders were giving back most of a 15-game lead in the AL Central:Even the worst division winner is still a division winner.So, the San Diego Padres are hanging a panel from a left-field balcony that declares their magic number in the NL West, and they'll play four games against the San Francisco Giants starting Monday beneath that number, opening the series with their best pitchers, Jake Peavy and Adam Eaton.The Padres finish the season with three home games against the Dodgers, who might by then be playing to hold off the Colorado Rockies. Magid Associates."You could have a decent little business," Vorhaus said. Now I was against Pablo Escobar."ALMOST immediately, Salcedo helped devise an assault onEscobar's Medellin compound.Two heavily armed Hughes 500 helicopters, painted in the olive green of Colombia's national police, flew a 12-man team of Salcedo's mercenaries to a mountain staging area.But descending through a cloud bank, one of the choppers hit a mountaintop The pilot was killed.

A weekend or two later, I was supposed to go to a party where Western-style attire was required. Miller (R-Diamond Bar).Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, is married to Sidney Harman, founder of Harman International Industries. Part of what the study shows is that the region's growth increasingly depends on small businesses, immigrant labor and a growing sector that operates outside government regulation and taxation. It came by accident, when backwash pushed him into the face of a wave and he found himself three feet above the surface, his feet still firmly planted on the deck. "I am resigning, but I am not deserting," he said.Then he flew to Taiwan with a fortune in gold.Saigon fell nine days later without the feared bloodbath -- in fact, with hardly more than a stray shot fired.