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...warlike mobilization was by no means left to the stricken zones. At Chalkville Elementary School near Birmingham, Ala., more than 700 calls had been received from worried parents, many of whom came at midmorning to pick up their children. Churches and schools and civic groups all around the country offered to help anyone stranded by the grounding of the nation's planes. All over Los Angeles, offices and government buildings were shut down and surrounded by police: city hall, the Federal Building in Westwood, even shopping malls. At the Federal Building, armored rescue vehicles and Ford cars ringed the entrances...
...path to full independence. Some walked for hours from their villages. Women dressed as if for church, in traditional skirts and formal satin tops. Men crouched in groups, smoking and talking. Tiny girls in party dresses shaded themselves under umbrellas. Among them were those who, despite a concerted civic-education effort by the United Nations and aid agencies, don't yet fully understand the new order their vote will help create. At a polling center in Liquica, where a militia attack in April 1999 left hundreds dead or injured, Maria Isobel de Jesus says her family "wants only peace...
...recent years, civic leaders have tried to engineer a Detroit Renaissance. Three imposing casinos line the city streets, touted as an urban panacea by some and a Pandora’s box by others. New leaders line the city school board, hoping to rescue floundering schools from funding cuts and a state takeover. Major businesses, such as Compuware, are moving back into the city...
Once reserved for a necessary but ultimately boring civic duty, Election Day could become one of the nation?s most exhilarating holidays. If so, trace it back to today, when former Presidents Carter and Ford delivered a long-awaited report on Election 2000 and how to make future elections run more smoothly. Their recommendations range from the mundane (re-evaluate the efficacy of punch-card ballots) to the nebulous (enforce civil rights statutes) to the vaguely diverting (make Election Day a federal holiday...
This week's Innovators on marketing is the 13th installment in a series profiling people we think will make a profound mark on the new century. So perhaps you're wondering who our pick for the next avatar of yoga is or who the next wave of civic leaders are. --Find the whole Innovators epic at time.com/innovators...