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...communities are braced for the challenge of multilingualism. At Salina Elementary School in the shadow of the hulking Ford Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, 90% of the students are native speakers of Arabic. Academically, many of them lag far behind other students in the district. Earlier this year, spurred by the possibility of a five-year, $5 million federal grant, school superintendent Jeremy Hughes proposed forming a two-way Arabic-English program. Not only was the proposal rejected by the local board of education after heated public criticism, but it opened the way for a wholesale attack on bilingual...
SENTENCED. NINA SIMONE, 62, singer; to a two-month suspended sentence and a $5,000 fine for causing and fleeing a 1993 auto accident that injured two young motorcyclists; in Aix-en-Provence, France...
...complex computer models that climatologists use to test their theories. Unlike chemists or molecular biologists, climate experts have no way to do lab experiments on their specialty. So they simulate them on supercomputers and look at what happens when human-generated gases--carbon dioxide from industry and auto exhaust, methane from agriculture, chlorofluorocarbons from leaky refrigerators and spray cans--are pumped into the models' virtual atmospheres...
...PLAYING AUTO CATCH...
...proposals to cut enforcement budgets. The House's deregulators are busy on several other fronts as well. They have rescinded a law that required firms to provide communities with information about the release of toxic substances. The House has also approved specific rule relaxations that will affect grocery stores, auto dealers, truckers and the United Parcel Service. Revenge is hard work--but sweet...