Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Harvard on Tuesday, about 50 students marched across the Yard in an attempt to persuade President Neil L. Rudenstine to adopt a strict labor code in sweatshops that manufacture products with Harvard's insignia...
When Ivy licensing officials meet on Wednesday to adopt the industry code's language, it will be in the face of the most energetic nationwide student movement in decades. In just the past two weeks, student sit-ins at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Georgetown, and Duke have mobilized hundreds of students for days on end and won guarantees of full public disclosure. Meanwhile, Central American and Asian garment workers make Harvard clothes under deplorable conditions, concealed by the continuous movement of the global economy. If we are committed to fighting global injustice, we must join with other American...