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...Chatham Real Estate, which owns the building, padlocked the theater doors last Thursday after a rent check bounced, said leaseholder and operator Garen Daly...
...integrate its older students into campus life, Chatham College, a small liberal arts school for women in Pittsburgh, renovated a separate dorm for adults. Berry Hall is convenient, affordable ($350 a month for a mother and child, including utilities); day care is provided nearby. The University of California at Santa Cruz, where 1,500 of the 9,000 students are beyond the keg-party stage, provides subsidized family housing...
...average age of the U.S. population continues to rise, the future for adult education seems bright. "I could easily go to school for the rest of my life," says Chatham student Bobbi Hill, 38, who flunked out of college the first time around but is now on her way to a degree in history and philosophy. In the decades to come, colleges are gambling that millions of adults will share her enthusiasm...
...which could push many of them over the financial brink. Last week's heat wave, which reached 105 degrees F in parts of the Carolinas, further scorched crops and killed more than 500,000 chickens. "This could put us completely out of business," laments Dairy Farmer Charlie Bouldin, of Chatham County, N.C., who expects less than 30% of his hay and corn crops to survive...
This month in Savannah, which ranks fourth among U.S. cities in homicide rates, a 31-member, N.A.A.C.P.-sponsored citizens task force on black-vs.- black violence was created. Curtis Cooper, president of the Savannah N.A.A.C.P., noted that blacks are usually both perpetrator and victim in Chatham County. The task force, he says, was designed "to wake people up about the seriousness of this problem." Eugene H. Gadsden, a black superior court judge and a member of the task force, asserted that community involvement was essential. "We're the ones being affected most," said Gadsden, "and we ought to be able...