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...bingo! Eureka! You've got it! For what, indeed, determines merit? All those science camps mom and dad sent you to when you were little? That inspiring high-school English teacher, Mr. Perry, who always knew you were a poet inside? Or maybe it was all those grueling afternoons spent practicing the viola when you would have preferred being outside, playing with the kids on your block. Merit is enabled by all of the above and more. Merit is a promise, an investment in human capital. And this investment necessitates time, encouragement and, of course, money...
...simply bores students. The schools that will be recognized as institutions of excellence are the ones that directly engage students in the learning process through strong reliance on class discussion, cooperative student projects, community-based learning, meaningful field trips and guest lecturers. RICHARD PARKER, Executive Director Partners in Education Eureka Springs...
...from his stock-brokerage business. (San Diego police say they have no record of a charge against him.) Though for the next six years Modesto sent MaryAnn his $900-a-month Navy pension, she says he stopped in late 1995. Forced onto welfare and food stamps, she moved to Eureka, Ill., to be near another son, Christopher, and to settle in public housing. About a month ago, Cunanan's mother returned quietly to National City, Calif., a working-class suburb of San Diego...
...Gibbons, Eureka's Republican Congressman (his district is the nation's third largest and includes the whole state except for central Las Vegas), feels a little alienated himself. In town for a make-your-own-sub-sandwich get-together, he characterizes his job on Capitol Hill as a "David and Goliath" situation. "There's a cynicism about government out here because it's so far away," says Gibbons. "Every state has its believers in black helicopters, but our real problem is that the rest of the country sees us as a solution to its problems. Everybody wants to dump their...
...things--pervades the local mind-set. One explanation might be all the gold--gold, the traditional hedge against inflation, the currency of fear. As anyone who has seen The Treasure of the Sierra Madre knows, gold tends to fuel a peculiar cycle of euphoria, panic and suspicion. In Eureka, where a new mine is opening up, the hills around town are being graded and bulldozed in preparation for dozens of fancy new homes. Eureka's Cuchine fears the houses are a rip-off, a scheme by the mining conglomerate to sell real estate that it knows will be worthless when...