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...airport with the harried hordes of package tourists: a sleepy, tree-lined city along the lazy Mekong, surrounded by low mountains. The tour groups vanish: variances in Western and Chinese tastes work to segregate the city. Domestic tourists stay across the river in glitzy, Vegas-style hotels offering all-day shows of tribal dancing and wild animal routines that would outrage even the mildest environmentalist. Foreigners mostly stay in the many small hotels and guesthouses in the old town, such as the clean and quiet Banna Guesthouse, where an air-conditioned double costs $18 per night; call...
...accused Gorbachev of high treason in a closed session of parliament. But still, the putsch fizzled. The first ominous lull turned quickly into a baffling loss of momentum. Soon after the events, the story leaked out that the putsch leadership was less a junta than an all-day vodka party. Most of the eight leaders are said to have spent three days dead drunk. This may be so, but it was not key reason for failure. The junta suffered a failure of nerve, but its biggest problem was a lack of decisive leadership. By his one act of defiance...
...anywhere else?" The free events include a hot-air balloon race and continuous music from players perched on high-wheel 1890s bicycles, Civil War-era bands, musicians performing from a re-created turn-of-the-century bandwagon, and New Orleans-style jazz bands. There is also an all-day band-history conference, which costs...
...last year. In August he and 349 other recruits attended a pep-rally orientation for New York Fellows, an accelerated-certification program started by schools chancellor Harold Levy. "Urban education," Levy told the group, "has the same moral force as the civil rights movement." After four weeks of all-day classes on teaching methods and lesson plans, the 323 who stuck with the training, and who passed two required state exams, were face to face with their first students...
Most of the nation's 1,500 career academies are all-day schools that focus on one area of study. In a typical medical academy, students would fulfill all of their core academic work at the academy, but it would be tailored to their areas of specialization. In a comprehensive long-term study of these academies, the Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. recently found that the programs were especially beneficial to underperforming students. One key benefit was reducing the dropout rate...