Bank of America, which absorbed Countrywide Financial, the poster child of bad paper, has seen its stock go up 80% in three weeks.

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To get a handle on my children's hectic, homework-jammed evenings, I keep extras of everything they might need for projects: binders, construction paper, poster board, notebooks, pens, markers, glue sticks.

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Make a chart or graph on poster board or a large piece of paper.

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