Word: cantons
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...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...
Look at it, for just a minute, the other way round. China recently published an "Atlas of Shame" cataloging its abasements at the hands of colonial powers over the past 155 years. First on the list: Britain, abetted by American merchants in 1840, turned its battleships and guns on Canton in order to ram opium down Chinese throats and open China to foreign exploitation. The humiliating siege ended when the Emperor capitulated and ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain...
...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...
...alone new networks to offer alternative service in key markets where demand for state-of-the-art data, long-distance and local calling was high. Similar deals were rolled out through the rest of 1996. ICG signed with Midwest giant American Electric Power to offer communications in Columbus and Canton, Ohio. Cascade, a Westford, Mass., company, will supply frame-relay devices to ICG's burgeoning Northern California network, allowing the Bay Area's techie firms to avoid Internet overload. Additional networks are building in the Southeast...
Before he became Marilyn Manson, Warner, now 28, lived a youth of bland middle-class normality in Canton, Ohio. His parents, a furniture salesman and a nurse, sent him to a strict Christian boarding school, which, he later said, "turned me against the hypocrisy of organized religion." At 18 he took a job as a rock journalist on a tiny Florida paper before deciding to launch his own career in music. In 1994 he was discovered by Trent Reznor, leader of the popular band Nine Inch Nails and one of the architects of "industrial rock," an abrasive offshoot of punk...