Bang on cue, Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, is quoted denouncing the idea, saying that "children and young people differ from year to year, making it impossible to measure progress in simplistic terms" (translation: don't blame teachers for bad results, blame the children), and calling performance-related pay "divisive" (well yes, that's the point).

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The U.S. Supreme Court, ending its session with a bang, soundly rejected a lawsuit by state attorneys general that would have effectively regulated utility emissions of greenhouse gases outside of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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If doctors make more effort "to counsel patients on what a general healthy-eating diet is like, we can get a lot of bang for the buck, " she added.

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Washington (CNN) -- "Bang ups and hang ups can happen to you, " Attorney General Eric Holder read to a group of preschoolers from Dr. Seuss' book "Oh, The Places You'll Go" at the Department of Education's kickoff to its summer reading program on Wednesday.

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One of his great achievements since then, together with mathematician Roger Penrose, has been to prove that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity means space and time has a beginning in the "Big Bang" and ends in black holes.

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