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Narrow Curriculum. So it may, but meanwhile the segregation academies have had a hard time delivering "quality education." The problem is mainly a lack of money. Because few of the parents are wealthy, tuition fees must be kept modest (average: $300 a year). Attempts by Southern legislatures to help the...
Many planners had questioned whether voters would actually pay to protect their environment. The answer now seems to be yes-at least if water pollution is involved. Maine's tightfisted voters, for instance, approved a $50 million bond issue to build better municipal sewage-treatment plants, but turned down...
The new era in transportation that such vehicles promise will be somewhat delayed. The one obstacle that keeps the electric car little more than a conversation piece and unable to compete with conventional automobiles is not the motor but the battery. As many as 16 expensive, low-energy-density batteries...
From the looks of Little Bay, one thing was clear. Christo was there. The craggy Australian inlet nine miles from downtown Sydney lay beneath 1,000,000 sq. ft. of clingy, opaque, icky, sticky polypropylene plastic, looking like some improbable flotsam that had drifted in on a high tide, the...
Christ as the Man of Sorrows displays the same blend of mannered elegance and gory realism. But the triumph of Meister Francke's mature style is seen in the St. Thomas of Canterbury altar piece, painted after 1424 for a group of Hamburg merchants trading with England. The nine...