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...wake of sit-ins at other colleges and increased anger at the lack of progress in negotiations with the University, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) sent a letter to University President Neil L. Rudenstine last Thursday demanding that the school adopt an anti-sweat-shop code of conduct...
...advocates insist that just knowing they could get caught is enough to make teens more vigilant. The biggest deterrent may be the stories of kids like Loren Wells. That's why, besides pushing his state to adopt a stricter graduated licensing law, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge is taking an extra precaution. "I cut out the articles about those girls," says Ridge. "And I've saved them to remind my own children down the road...
...whose last charitable act was letting someone merge into my lane, I shouldn't go criticizing other people's good works. But the adopt-a-highway program may be the lamest charity I've ever heard of. What goes through these people's minds? "Yeah, homelessness is a bummer, but, my God, have you seen what's become of that westbound stretch of I-80?" Or "Honey, should we adopt a Somali orphan or a small section of road...
Bette was convincing enough to make me do some research. I concluded that the adopt-a-highway program is not only stupid; it's not even very much fun. There's no Sally Struthers sending you monthly letters and updated pictures to tell you how well your highway is doing. Instead, the program requires you and lots of your friends to show up four times a year for two years and pick up trash...
...turns out that most people--despite the prospect of playing with those pointy metal spears that, for reasons I can't understand, they allow prisoners to use--aren't too psyched on this picking-up-trash part. That's why the Adopt-a-Highway Litter Removal Service of America lets you pay them to do the charity work for you. In return, your corporation gets to put up a sign saying you like highways more than Somali orphans...