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Again, many white families voted with their feet, moving this time to private schools or just over the Pennsylvania border. Today Delaware has one of the highest private-school attendance rates in the country, at 19%--and that number started its climb just as busing began. In Brandywine, the district where Smith's children attend school, 26% of families opt for private schools. In 1995 a federal judge ruled that Wilmington had achieved integration and lifted the court order. But by then much of the earlier tension had abated, and the four districts continued busing...
...Jensen responded with six-hour price specials, supersales and coupons galore, and when those initiatives failed to pull the store out of its death spiral, he got employees to start offering product demonstrations in every department, including fashion shows. It took a full 12 months for sales to climb back to pre-Wal-Mart levels, and, says Jensen, the most successful measure that year was also the simplest: "Talking to people, making them feel at home...
...Miami Children's Museum offers programs like Dilly Dali, for small Surrealists, and Funshine Band, in which tots can make their own music. And one of the highlights at EdVenture in Columbia, S.C., which opened last November, is a simulated indoor jungle. Toddlers can fish, hunt for bugs and climb mini-trees in an engrossing exhibit that engages their senses with the sights, sounds and even smells of the outdoors. Similarly, the Children's Museum of Atlanta, which opened in March 2003, has a forest in which preschoolers can don multicolored raincoats and play under a 250-gal. waterfall...
Health care and education are inflation's mainstays, and gasoline has been going up for a while. But in March, the prices of hotels, clothing, airline tickets and used cars all showed big jumps. Next to climb will be anything tied to raw materials, the prices of which have been on a tear (see YOUR TIME, page 148). Nails, envelopes, paper clips, wallboard and such foods as cereal and meat should reflect the pinch soon. Services from gardening to accounting will probably cost more later...
...fall with Dutch playwright Maria Goos' Cloaca. As that checkered list suggests, some stars use a stint in London in hopes of reviving their flagging movie careers; others hope to earn serious acting cred. Stiles needs neither. Her career has been on a steep climb since her riveting turn as the formidable but deeply pained student Kat in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You, a loose reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. In her current release, Mona Lisa Smile, Stiles makes an impression despite the film's obsessive devotion to Julia Roberts' toothy grin...