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Even with these problems, many Asian-American students are making the U.S. education system work better for them than it has for any other immigrant group since the arrival of East European Jews began in the 1880s. Like the Asians, the Jews viewed education as the ticket to success. Both groups "feel an obligation to excel intellectually," says New York University Mathematician Sylvain Cappell, who as a Jewish immigrant feels a kinship with his Asian-American students. The two groups share a powerful belief in the value of hard work and a zealous regard for the role of the family...
...debate in New York reflects the difficulties of changing a system that traces its roots in the U.S. to the late 1880s. Yet there is little doubt as to the need for reform. Even the American Medical Association, though adamantly opposed to state interference in medical training, acknowledges that the pressures on young doctors are now too heavy. "The A.M.A. is extremely concerned about stress and overfatigue in residency," says Dr. William Jacott, chairman of the A.M.A. Council on Medical Education. "We realize that stress is a critical part of the educational program, but we want it better under control...
...such criticism, McDonald's has tried to make its presence more welcome in recent years by toning down its garish yellow arches and designing restaurants that insinuate themselves into the neighborhood. On the Mississippi River in St. Louis, a McDonald's is housed in a floating reproduction of an 1880s side-wheeler, complete with brass-trimmed chandeliers...
...pleasant, but no modern intruder would feel at home there. Houses with handsome fireplaces remained pretty cold, reading by candlelight was difficult, and there was still no running water. It was only the industrial era that brought such improvements as household gas lamps in the 1840s, electricity in the 1880s and then the great heap of laborsaving appliances at the turn of the century. In 1870 fully 60% of employed American women worked as household servants; 50 years later most of the servants had vanished, to be replaced by electric vacuums and washing machines. "The feminine idea of the home...
...Prohibition. At one time or other, it served as a makeshift movie theater and honky-tonk. In 1963 Wallace Clayton, editor of the National Tombstone Epitaph, and Partner Harold Love, along with two other investors, bought the place for $100,000 and spent another $100,000 restoring its original 1880s decor, including 20-ft. ceilings, swinging doors and frosted- glass windows. Now Clayton and Love's widow are ready to retire, but they say that the Crystal Palace is profitable. Local ranchers and tourists enjoy being served by bartenders who wear stiff cotton shirts, string ties and black pants, just...