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Many other U.S. cities have moved toward decentralization - although not to the degree envisioned by the Bundy panel. Most of the plans have kept power in central boards, delegating only limited authority to district superintendents. The aim has been to give in dividual schools, and sometimes citizens' advisory boards, a more forceful voice at central headquarters while avoiding a bottleneck of minor decision-making...
Explaining the Gap. Chief among the direct causes of infant death are respiratory malfunction, low birth weight, premature birth, and congenital malformations of the circulatory, digestive and central nervous systems. Some of these factors are genetic, and irreversible. Thus there is a limit beyond which infant mortality cannot be reduced. Nonetheless, 320 U.S. counties have achieved a lower rate of 18.3 deaths per 1,000 births. Poor maternal health, malnutrition, inadequate sanitation and illegitimacy, predictably most prevalent in low-income communities, are also important factors. In Holland and Denmark, which have had a virtually uninterrupted decline in infant mortality since...
...decided to create big spaces where the people could come into contact with their government," explains Kallmann. "We wanted to draw them into it instead of letting them stand around outside." Thus, though the city hall is a bastion, it abounds in entrances, ramps, staircases, and a huge central courtyard-all suitable, as Kallmann points out, for sit-ins. Lower levels, which will have the most traffic, are reserved for public business, contain windows at which citizens can file complaints, get licenses, argue over assessments, and register to vote. Slung through the belly of the building, with hooded windows projecting...
...economic future in East Africa. Even Somalia's President Abdinashid AH Shermarke, whose country has recently encouraged rebellious tribes in both Kenya and Ethiopia, had cooled off enough to come along and ask to join. The other nations represented-Rwanda, Burundi, both Congos, the Sudan and the Central African Republic-are hoping that the new Community will bring better communications, air service and highways to a large part of Africa...
...Require that gold dealings by nonmember central banks and private financial institutions be made directly on the market rather than through commercial banks. By ending the anonymity surrounding transactions arranged by Swiss banks, which customarily handle two-thirds of all orders going into the London market, this measure would enable the pool to identify-and cope with-abnormally heavy speculators. > Formalize the pool by giving it a formidable gold stock of its own for the first time. Until now each member nation has been billed monthly for gold that has been sold to meet speculative market demand. The new scheme...