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In California a federally funded voucher experiment died aborning in 1981 when students found alternative schools to be no better than those they had left. Elsewhere, the notion has little more support. A Chicago city council proposal for vouchers has triggered such strong opposition from the school board that the...
73 Medicine For families of artificial-heart patients, the experiment has been grueling. Drinking milk may reduce the risk of colon cancer.
While world attention has focused on Schroeder and the other four recipients of the permanent artificial heart, little has been said about the families who are, in every sense, fellow participants in a grueling human experiment. "We have never had an experiment before that has required such emotionally and physically...
As a leader in the war against the Japanese, Deng began to experiment with some of the incentive techniques that are at the core of his second revolution. In 1943 he launched a campaign called the "great production movement," aimed at boosting local harvests. It included a system of "rewarding...
Much of the credit for Sichuan's transformation belongs to Premier Zhao Ziyang, a Deng protégé who served as the party's provincial secretary from 1975 to 1980. Zhao helped introduce the contract-responsibility system, the bedrock of rural reforms, in 1977. Families and individuals were assigned plots in...