Giving parents the freedom to choose is already working wonders for thousands of kids in Milwaukee, Dayton and Cleveland.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Giving parents the freedom to choose is already working wonders for thousands of kids in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

During national elections last year she hinted she was in favor of junking Germany's tax code and replacing it with a simple flat tax, a system that is working wonders in many parts of central and eastern Europe.

FORBES: Powerful Antiterror Weapon-Unused

Nowadays, behind Skunk Works' highly secure perimeter, engineers reportedly are working on the aviation wonders of tomorrow, including a lightweight cargo plane called the X-55A and a bizarre, blimp-like airship called the P-791 Hybrid Air Vehicle, which has special technology that allows it to take off and land just about anywhere.

CNN: Where planes go to die

Perry's tour comes as Washington wonders whether attempts to tempt the North Koreans to behave better are working.

CNN: TACKLING A CONUNDRUM

One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" on his yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.

WSJ: Book Review: Grand Ambition

By working with leading scientific institutions, we will collate data and catalogue life forms and unlock the wonders of the oceans still unknown to humankind or science.

FORBES: Richard Branson On Exploring The Final Frontier

One wonders, though, what tales Rainbow Warrior 3 will have to tell at the end of its working life - and how much of a dent it'll manage to make on the less tractable issues that head today's agenda.

BBC: Greenpeace Rainbow sails again