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...more than half of U.S.C.'s students volunteer to work in the poorer neighborhoods near their school, but students in courses ranging from landscape architecture to dentistry also apply their knowledge toward solving community problems. Not every college in America has South Central L.A. as a laboratory, but almost every school can do more to help its immediate neighbors--and teach its students more in the process...
...happy ending, that good-natured spirit carries one over some of the logical lacunae of the script by Adam Scheinman and Robert Kuhn. But not quite past the presence of Caan. It was only 27 years ago that his crazy volatility ignited The Godfather. Now he's almost beamish as a wary fixer. He's still funny, but his new characterization, like the success of The Sopranos and Analyze This, reminds us how quickly we have converted palpable menace to pure ethnic comedy. Is this progress? Not really. But in the context of Mickey Blue Eyes it's easy...
That doesn't seem like much, but it's a level not seen since the last speculative bubble burst, in 1987. And it's still growing, almost exponentially, rising faster than credit-card or mortgage debt. "We've had an expansion of margin debt the likes of which haven't been seen since the 1920s," says Tom Schlesinger, executive director of Financial Markets Center, a research institute...
...ONLINE GENERATION Which city is home to the greatest number of wired kids? An AOL survey puts New York City at the top of the list. Nationwide, almost 5 million children under 12 log on daily; even kids ages 2 to 5 surf the Web, averaging three hours a week. Parents report that kids are more likely to fight over computer time than over use of the phone...
...albums are not just good-hearted, they're also good listening--and almost always on the cutting edge. Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (1994) deftly combines the talents of jazz acts (Ron Carter, Joshua Redman) and hip-hoppers (the Roots, Spearhead). Red Hot + Rio (1996) features such performers as Maxwell, Sting and Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora exploring the music of Brazil; a terrific companion CD, Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, showcases the work of Brazilian acts from the '50s, '60s and '70s (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso...