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...Public Interest Group. The gap grew to 100%, or $110, when large banks were compared with credit unions. At the NationsBank branch in Woodstock, Ga., a personal checking account costs $10 a month without a minimum balance, while a similar account at the locally owned Bank of Canton costs...
...HARVARD, 3-1 at Canton, N.Y. Harvard 0 0 3 -- 3 St. Lawrence...
...CANTON, N.Y.--They went into the weekend demanding four points for their efforts...
...spends less money per pupil than surrounding suburban counties do, echoing a comparison made in similar school-funding battles being waged from New Jersey to Alaska. But such comparisons say nothing about why even poor districts somehow manage to produce a handful of excellent schools, such as Baltimore's Canton Middle School (see box), flourishing even though 86% of its students fall below the poverty line. Nor do comparisons explain situations where schools spend more than they should. Last year, for example, Baltimore spent $125 million, or 20% of its total school budget, on 18,000 students identified as disabled...
...city formerly known as Canton has been infected by capitalism's mercantile excesses ever since the West forced open its doors as a treaty port in 1842. Today Guangzhou is China's best example of the worst the West has to offer. Its take-no-prisoners style has encouraged official corruption and ruthless business practices. "Corruption is normal," shrugs businessman Wang Shi. "Crime is new." So are beggars in the streets. This is a city that thumbs its nose at the government, holding on to as much of its wealth as it can, ignoring orders it dislikes, following...