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Spitalfields is a London neighborhood with a dual personality. It borders the financial district, but walk 10 minutes to the east and you hit deprived public-housing projects. The area's focal point is Spitalfields market, founded in 1887 and still going strong, in part due to the controversial development of the western side. Under an arching transparent canopy, mainstream shops and restaurants, which moved in over the winter, are now doing a brisk trade alongside the established stalls peddling eclectica. Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk...
Spitalfields is a London neighborhood with a dual personality. It borders the financial district, but walk 10 minutes to the east and you hit deprived public-housing projects. The area's focal point is Spitalfields market, founded in 1887 and still going strong, in part [an error occurred while processing this directive] due to the controversial development of the western side. Under an arching transparent canopy, mainstream shops and restaurants, which moved in over the winter, are now doing a brisk trade alongside the established stalls peddling eclectica...
...back to the farm after graduation," says Stanford University education professor Michael Kirst, who co-wrote the 2004 book From High School to College. "In small ways, people are starting to reclaim senior year." Those efforts include internships that keep seniors motivated by allowing them to explore their passions, dual-enrollment programs on college campuses that offer a sneak preview of the higher-education experience and tests designed to alert those likely to have trouble keeping up in college that they should buckle down...
...cutting class and losing focus. "High school was torture," says Ferszt. "I'd grown out of it. For some people, senior year just doesn't make sense." Kevin Quinn, Ferszt's counselor at South Kingstown High School, helped make her final year more meaningful by directing Ferszt to a dual-enrollment program at the local community college. There she is finishing earning her high school credits and beginning college-level classes. "Seniors need something to gravitate to and be re-energized by," says Quinn. When South Kingstown High began offering dual enrollment 10 years ago, it was primarily...
...treatment of families under the Howard government-and of the general thrust of two decades of tax reform-by Professor Patricia Apps from the University of Sydney is revealing. She found that the combination of tax cuts and additional family payments in recent years has produced a dual shift in the tax burden: the largest income gains are going to single-earner families and to those at the top of the earnings tree...