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...answered his tele-personal ad and flown from Mission Viejo, Calif., to meet Frankel in Greenwich. What she found when she walked into the $3 million mansion was a halfway house of sorts, a community of women gathered from personal ads and Internet chat rooms, all in the employ of this monied recluse who spent his days hunched over trading terminals in the mansion's digitally locked bedroom-cum-offices...
Some schools cope by employing volunteers to help in the classroom. At Forest Trail Elementary in Austin, Texas, Marie Grace, a stay-at-home mom, serves one day a week on "table time." During a recent visit, she sat at a table with five children and passed out Froot Loops cereal. First the children sorted the cereal by color, then they talked about the letter f and which words begin with f. The students then made a graph showing how many loops of each color they had. Then they made a necklace of the loops and, finally, ate them. When...
FOOD We'll favor fruits, grains and vegetables grown close to home, either in our backyard gardens [6] or on nearby organic farms [7]. It won't take much energy to get the fresh produce to local markets. Since the farms will employ natural forms of pest control rather than potentially toxic chemicals, there will be much less of a buildup of suspected carcinogens in the food supply...
Chittick hopes to soon employ a work-study graduate student at the shelter to act as a facilitator to help the undergraduate volunteers process their experiences and point them toward courses at the University dealing with issues of homelessness, poverty and social justice...
...they manage is important for the whole country. Small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees) make up roughly 90% of all U.S. businesses and employ 55 million Americans. According to the Bureau of the Census, 99.9% of enterprises that are born and buried each year are small firms. And the challenges to a long life expectancy are growing. While the gross domestic product of the U.S. was up 3.8% in 1997, the U.S. Small Business Administration reports that business failures increased 15.9% that year, to 83,384--the highest level since...