MDG 2: Primary school enrolment figures have shown an impressive rise, but the goal of achieving universal primary education has just been missed, with the net enrolment rate increasing from 83% in 2000 to 91% this year.
An "Amber alert" is an announcement over radio, TV, and electronic highway signs that inform the public that a child has just been reported missing (along with any relevant details, such as a physical description of the child and the make and color of the car they were last seen in).
Incidental Intelligence: A Georgia girl named Frankie Reynolds has just been crowned Miss Spirits of Gum Turpentine for 1947.
By Betty Reese and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, November 8 , 1947P. 24 Incidental Intelligence: A Georgia girl named Frankie Reynolds has just been crowned Miss Spirits of Gum Turpentine for 1947.
A film called "Something Else" is made up entirely of archival material, a video clip from the early 1970s, in which a young woman who has just been crowned Miss Black Roanoke, Va., is being interviewed by a white reporter.
Mad Men If you haven't kept up with Mad Men's fourth season, then you haven't just been missing out on some of the most celebrated television of the year, but also Will Dean's peerless episode guides on the Guardian website, and that's a crime in itself.
After months of using a fairly good pair of retail headphones from Sony, we found the sound of the edition7 to have a comparable quality akin to looking out a familiar window that has just been cleaned and realizing you were missing a great deal of the view all along.
Marley has just been invited by Miss Mary Churchill, recently here, to go to sing in London before the Prime Minister, because "Daddy will like your songs".
9.10pm: The worst putt of the weekend has just been made by Perry, who misses a tiddler at nine after Poulter has birdied; the Europeans are now two up in that match.
