Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many prime-time cartoons on the air, but remember, each new half-hour of animation means one less lame sitcom. Here the creator of Dr. Katz has transformed his motionless SquiggleVision technique into moving animation, and in doing so has sacrificed some of the banter for which the Comedy Central program is known. But this show, about an eight-year-old who makes films and his mother (Paula Poundstone), is more than smart enough to make you wonder...
...closely as most kids read music 'zines. Some nights you can find them at Nevada's house, reading the latest report out loud, highlighting anything that sounds weird. Her brother calls them the Toxic Crusaders, and with good reason. As three young members of Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles (CCSCLA), Maria, Fabiola and Nevada are activists in the cause of environmental health. They've handed out containers in which oil can be recycled and given warnings about lead poisoning. Most of all, they're agitating for the temporary closing and cleanup of Jefferson New Middle School...
Jefferson is the first public school to open in South Central Los Angeles in 30 years. Built on a site that was once home to a maker of refrigerator shells and, earlier, to a defense contractor that made fuel tanks for World War II fighter planes, it serves about 2,000 students, mostly poor, mostly minority. But across the street is the former home of a chrome-plating shop, a site so hazardous that it is scheduled for cleanup under the federal Superfund program. During construction of the school, it was discovered that the soil and groundwater under the building...
...fact, she has staked her professional reputation on it. Kearns, 60, is superintendent of Newcomb Central School, serving Newcomb, N.Y., (pop. 550) on Route 28N in Adirondack State Park. Her public school is the smallest in New York, with 69 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade. The two-story brick schoolhouse was built for 400 children in 1948, when a titanium and magnetite mine was operating nearby. After the mine closed about a decade ago, the student body dwindled, and the state pressured the town to shut the school...
That forced Kearns to figure out how to make Newcomb Central a special place, a school no one would want to shutter. Realizing she was in the middle of "the biggest classroom in the whole world," she decided to give her curriculum an environmental focus, emphasizing Adirondack ecology and history "smack in our backyard." Walk into the school now, and an eerie silence echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students...