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ing way to dread as school cancellations pile up -- a whopping 15 days off so far in his southern Ohio district, with more snow in the forecast.
• Now, even his 12-year-old daughter and 9-year-old twins are missing friends and tired of being stuck at home, he said.
• "We really need to get to back to school and some normalcy," said Crabtree, who teaches American Studies at Waverly High School, which lost much of January's class time to cancellations and two-hour delays.
• He wonders how he'll get students ready for state standardized tests next month.
• "I'm feeling the heat because there are things we have to cover," he said.
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• LONDON (AP) -- For the past three decades, many Britons had hoped the rigid class system that defined their country from Dickens to "Downton Abbey" was finally dying. Now they fear that class, their old bugbear, is back on the rise.
• From 1979, Britain was led for more than a decade by Margaret Thatcher, a grocer's daughter, and then by John Major, the son of a music-hall entertainer. The current leader, David Cameron, is a descendent of King William IV whose Cabinet is stacked with men, like him, from the country's toniest private schools and Oxford and Cambridge universities.
• Even entertainment has a more upper-crust flavor these days. A recent Sunday Telegraph story with the headline "young, gifted and posh" said Britain's oldest private schools, such as all-male Eton and Harrow, had become a "production line of young talent," including "Homeland" star Damian Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch of "Sherlock" and Dominic West of "The Wire."
• Major, alarmed by the apparent reversals, recently sparked a flurry of debate with a speech that made front-page headlines.
• "In every single sphere of British influence, the upper echelons of power in 2013 are held overwhelmingly by the privately educated or the affluent middle class," Major said. "To me, from my background, I find that truly shocking."
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• CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly 3 out of 4 U.S. children and young adults consume at

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