Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When new football Defensive Coordinator Bruce Tall walks the sidelines in Saturday's season opener at Columbia, he will represent a color much more important than Crimson...
...improvement over the handling of the city's last major project--the Bradley Center Arena, where the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team plays. When the arena was built 12 years ago, the absence of minority contractors and employees sparked a bitter feud. "No black folks or other people of color got any of that," fumes city alderman Fred Gordon, who feels that even today, minority firms often get just "table scraps...
...lines of credit and basic services to businesses in South Central and East Los Angeles. "By enlarging the procurement pie," he says, "it has made it possible for everyone to be a part of the economy. In fact, the increased competition made better products and services." That's a color-blind mantra if ever there was one. --Reported by Patrick Cole/ Los Angeles, Sally B. Donnelly/Washington, Greg Fulton/Atlanta, Erik Gunn/Milwaukee, Emily Mitchell and Adrianne Navon/New York
Average students pay the price. At Halls Middle School in Knoxville, half the students in Gay Clapp's sixth-grade science class last year were classified as having "special needs." One day last spring, after giving her class a plant diagram to color, Clapp watched as a group of boys got up to hang out at the pencil sharpener, and other students wandered the room for supplies; for a few moments, all order broke down. "It's overwhelming," says Clapp, who has taught for 39 years. "Dealing with this many kids and this many different needs wears...
...computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage and phone Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed. For starters, there was no control group--composed of, say, people outside Pittsburgh. Teenagers were the largest group in the sample, and we all know about their mental health. Even the researchers admitted that their results could not be "generalized," meaning...