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Many plans also may, and should, change over time. Some ideas will work; some will not. Plans that succeed in rural or suburban areas may fail dismally in big cities. Welfare mothers who are easy to place in jobs during prosperous times may be next to impossible to put on payrolls when recession strikes. Some may lose jobs they found earlier and go back on the dole. And some of the many experiments that states have already begun, under waivers of the old law that the Clinton Administration has been granting liberally, may point the way for others...
...Putnam asserted that Americans' traditional engagement in civic activities has been in a 25-year decline. We couldn't agree more with Stengel! There is, indeed, a hidden revolution of citizen involvement that's not reflected in the declining membership rolls of traditional civic groups. But the media typically fail to report on the new forms of civic participation that contradict Putnam's notion of waning social capital. A vast universe of American public life, including citizen-based initiatives in health care, education, government, the media, race relations, economic life and much more--remains largely invisible. The notion of citizen...
...Angeles Coliseum and has them play an unusual game of basketball, in which they 24 seconds to run the full length of the court and score a point. If they miss a shot before scoring six points, the thousands of cheering armed citizens fire away. If they fail to shoot before 24 seconds have expired, the thousands of cheering armed citizens fire away. No prisoners survive the game, until Snake sinks a cross-court shot for his sixth point to escape death...
...grant for all welfare expenditures, set, in general, at this year's level, with added money promised only in the event of recession or unusual population growth. Federal money would no longer be paid to most recipients who stay on welfare longer than five years or to those who fail to meet work requirements within two years of coming on the rolls. Six years from now, states that fail to place half their welfare families in some sort of work activity would lose federal funds. States also will be free to stop payments to teenage mothers who aren...
...safe from a fanatically determined terrorist, it could help. Such technology just happens to be very expensive, and the FAA has been reluctant to ask the airlines, many of which are strapped by debt, to make enormous investments in equipment that may soon be outdated, or that is not fail-safe...