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...deemed a taxable snack, while the latter is a grocery -- and thus exempt from Canada's new 7% goods-and-services tax. A six-pack of yogurt and a dozen oranges are tax-free at the corner grocery, but one of each gets hit when bought in a cafeteria line. Self-employed workers earning less than $30,000 a year don't have to collect and pay the tax at all, so a wash-and-set at the hairdresser could cost $10.70 in one chair and only $10 in the next...
Most black parents are far more concerned about good teachers, discipline and curriculum. And it is parental involvement that makes Dumas special. Upwards of 60 parents (all women) volunteer on any given day to work as teacher's aides, help out in the cafeteria or cut up frogs for biology class. It's 9 a.m., and they know what their children are doing. So does Sylvia Peters, who tries to keep discreet tabs on the sexual activity of her seventh- and eighth-graders. She proudly cites a lone pregnancy during her tenure...
...officials in Bastrop, Texas, have sentenced eight-year-old Zachariah Toungate to a 10-ft. by 13-ft. isolation room all day. His crime? Refusal to cut his 7- in. ponytail. Zach is taught by substitute teachers but is banned from his gym classes and from eating in the cafeteria. He says he has nightmares that the walls of the classroom will close in and crush...
...them had reached the top ranks, they were more than window dressing. By soliciting their views at such conferences, the company hopes it can root out biased attitudes and broaden its appeal to future workers. Du Pont, where Woolard started 33 years ago in a plant with a segregated cafeteria and where less than 20 years ago women with chemical-engineering degrees often started as secretaries, is learning how to change...
When Dan Rather returned from the Persian Gulf, his billionaire boss invited the anchorman to a welcome-home lunch -- in the CBS cafeteria. As both men considered the "Mexican Week" choices, a mariachi band serenaded them with La Cucaracha...