Word: broader
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...everyone is on the fringe. "The bicycle is one solution, but what we need is a broader conversation about long-term answers to the traffic problem," says Joe Carroll of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Like many cities, San Francisco is a transportation nightmare regardless of whether Critical Mass is stalling traffic. On a recent midday trip along Market Street, it took half an hour to drive four blocks. But you can't blame city hall for that, says Steve Heminger of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional planning agency. Around the country, about 70% of all workers...
NATO's expansion toward Russia's borders is a provocative act that proves the West's cold war mentality is still very much alive [WORLD, July 14]. How would Americans feel if Russia entered into a broader military alliance with Mexico and stationed troops and equipment south of the Rio Grande? JOHN J. MOELAERT Victoria...
...these dissenting voices in the N.A.A.C.P. reflect a growing view in the broader African-American community that resources poured into desegregation might be better spent on improving the predominantly nonwhite schools most black children attend. In the past few years black school officials from Seattle, Washington, to the suburbs of Washington, D.C., have called for the end of--or simply ended--busing. That's because a new generation of African Americans sees the whole enterprise of desegregation coming to nothing as whites move to suburbs that the courts have put beyond the reach of busing orders. Only a third...
What's more, with so much riding on the test results for both students and school, there is a tendency to "teach to the test," emphasizing narrowly focused drills rather than broader--and ultimately more useful--education. "Believing we can improve schooling with tests is like believing we can fatten cattle by weighing them," says Monty Neill of FairTest, a Cambridge, Mass., advocacy group...
...When I was at Berkeley, I would not have hesitated to say you should invest with an organization that has a proven track record of success," Barber says. "But now that I have to look at a broader range of things, I am not sure that's true...