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Microsociety is the dream child of George Richmond, a painter, teacher, author and acclaimed educator who was raised in the tenements of Manhattan's Lower East Side. His first job, at a Brooklyn elementary school in 1967, was a rookie teacher's nightmare. Richmond's fifth-graders skipped class, scorned homework and slept through lectures, their apathy and cynicism surpassed only by their appetite for petty classroom warfare. In the end, the young idealist from Yale threw up his hands at a system in which teachers who pretended to teach and students who pretended to learn did very little...
...that recycling faces heavy slogging. "Recycling began with a real naive sort of optimism," says Bystryn. "I think it is important to come back somewhere near to reality." The Dinkins administration succeeded against intense environmentalist opposition in enacting a waste-disposal plan that includes construction of an incinerator in Brooklyn...
...that what the American viewing public is getting? Perhaps 10% of prime- time network programming is a happy combination of entertainment and enrichment. I think immediately of dramas like I'll Fly Away and Life Goes On or comedies like Brooklyn Bridge and The Wonder Years. There used to be television movies rich in human values, but they have now become an endangered species. Sleaze and mayhem. Murder off the front page. The woman in jeopardy. Is there too much sex on American TV? Not necessarily. Sex is a beautiful, even holy, part of human life, a unique...
...state pocket being picked. Says Congressman Jim Moran of a plan that would bring the city few economic perks: "It is a classic case of how not to conduct public policy." Officials in Washington could only fear that getting Skinned meant the town would be rubbed off the map. "Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers left," keened D.C. council chairman John Wilson, whose own city lost two baseball clubs in the 1950s. "You don't even think about Brooklyn...
...instructive to think about Brooklyn, the borough that Dodger owner Walter O'Malley abandoned for Los Angeles after New York City's master builder Robert Moses blocked the purchase of a crucial piece of land on which O'Malley had planned to build a stadium. Not since the heady carpetbagging of the 1950s, when five baseball franchises (including the Dodgers) deserted multi- team cities to find gold in the West and South, have owners been so restless. Some get bored and take the pocket money, as Domino's pizza king Tom Monaghan did last week when he sold his Detroit...