Word: directoral
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...this gridlock, environmentalists say, is to show it's possible to reduce greenhouse gases without sinking the economy. Solutions include cleaner cars and better wind- and solar-power technologies. Says Greg Wetstone, program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council: "When these kinds of options become available, people will feel less hopeless." Of course, it's also possible that only when people feel less hopeless will they press their leaders to make the solutions available...
...practical subjects like home ec, but the idea of giving 16- and 17-year-olds a primer on matrimony is relatively new. Many middle and high schools in more than 40 states have taken the plunge into marriage education in the past four years, according to Diane Sollee, director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education. This year Florida went a step further, mandating marriage ed as a high school graduation requirement. Arizona, Utah and South Dakota are considering similar legislation...
...split up, advocates of marriage classes contend that giving teens these tools early could eventually curb the divorce rate. Or at least dissuade sweethearts from marrying rashly. Ranging from a few weeks to a semester, the courses attract both singles and dating couples. Says author Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of Rutgers University's National Marriage Project: "In a consumer society where people have the facts about models of cars or refrigerators, it's only fair to give them the facts about marriage...
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...happened by accident last year that Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter and job-training center, held its graduation on the same day as Harvard's. But this year director Erik Payne Butler scheduled his ceremony last Thursday on purpose--a reminder, he says, that his graduates should be as celebrated as those folks across the Charles River. And there was an added juxtaposition this year: at Pine Street the keynote speaker was former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Harvard welcomed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views...