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...delivery. Both the Santa Fe and the Toyota Corolla-sized Elantra recently won top marks for front-end crash results from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, beating rivals like Toyota's RAV 4 and Ford's Escape. Consumer Reports rates the Elantra as favorably as the Honda Civic. Says Virginia dealer Don Reilly: "This is awesome...
...Civic Crusaders...
Your stories on community activists who are taking a new approach to civic change were very encouraging [INNOVATORS, June 18]. I hope the simplicity of their ideas will encourage others to join in the crusade to make this world a better place. An inspiring example is Bob Moses, the math teacher who traveled to Mississippi from Cambridge, Mass., to prepare high school students for college-prep math courses by teaching them algebra. It doesn't take a multimillion-dollar contract to make a hero. MICHAEL L. RUIVIVAR Horsham...
...That's why Bush wants to streamline federal programs - so he can demand results without telling states and schools exactly what to do. But the character education grants do just the opposite. To get the cash, school districts will be required to teach several specific government-approved values: caring, civic virtue and citizenship, justice and fairness, respect, responsibility and trustworthiness. (Districts are free to add their...
Recognizing that, civic activists are finding new ways to take on old problems - and new ways to take on new ones. They are battling problems that have no simple cause or solution, injustices that groan under the weight of words like systemic and insidious. Government's shrinking role means activists take over services once performed by bureaucrats: a cross-country cyclist becomes a consultant who eases traffic jams; a former civil rights activist flies to Mississippi each week to teach math in a way that lets students actually learn it. At the same time, modern activists must find ways...