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...dial down their expectations, and executives, their arrogance. Like news anchors and magazine writers, they no longer have the captive audiences or exalted places they once had, when Americans sat on the couch for prime time as though it were mandated in the Constitution. If they close down Capistrano for too long, the swallows might not all come back. The danger isn't anger; it's apathy...
...abuse clinic, began hosting weekly Gamblers Anonymous meetings. The center has six counselors on staff, but on average, only 10-15 attend the meetings. "The public is not aware that [gambling addiction] is a disease. They think it's part of the culture," says acting executive director Milagros Eos Capistrano. The clinic runs on patient fees, which don't add up to enough to cover the budget, forcing staff to dig into their own pockets to make up the difference. Without government support, "the disease will continue, the rate of crime will go up," says Capistrano. "It's destroying lives...
...tackling a 26.2-mile course that includes the entire Strip, closed off to cars. While élite runners vie for big money ($50,000 for the winner and $1.25 million to anyone who breaks the world record), newlyweds and vow renewers like Thomas and Bellinda Erikson, of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., will be racing for a night in the Mandalay Bay honeymoon suite. The Eriksons, who met in a relay race and have run 30 marathons between them, hope to win, but finishing together might prove more important. "She beat me in the last marathon," says Thomas, "and I haven...
...trend that created thousands of middle schools in the 1970s and '80s. Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...
...riotous clashes at school-board meetings whenever the sex-education curriculums come up for review. Last year, for example, when New York City developed a program designed to help combat a runaway rate of teenage pregnancy, religious groups presented a list of 56 objections. In middleclass San Juan Capistrano, Calif., the fray over sex-education reform grew so heated last spring that conservative opponents showed up at a school-board meeting dressed in Revolutionary War garb and bearing a cannon...