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Last month, three years after the death of Destiny Williams, the pressure for change at last overwhelmed the religious, financial and political opposition. The sweeping reforms, which received even Senator Ford's support, include more mandatory training for day-care workers and random audits for centers that take in more than $250,000 in subsidies. Perhaps most important, the state will now provide day-care center report cards, giving parents the tools for deciding the best place for their kids. Chumney, happy with her victory, is nevertheless cautious about the future. "I'm trying not to overplay it," she says...
...team to carry off the job: a father figure (Robert Duvall), the token black (Chi McBride) and a mute (Brit footballer Vinnie Jones) with a gift for setting cars on fire. Angelina Jolie is here as the nominal girl-jock love interest, but Memphis' true love is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500. As he says of his early career, "I didn't do it for the money. I did it for the cars...
STREAMLINED Ford design manager Ehab Kaoud believes that from now on, car styling will be driven more by function than form. "The idea is to optimize interior space while minimizing exterior volume," says Kaoud. Result: less weight, better gas mileage. The interior of the future Ford, left, will be infinitely customizable. Dashboards, for instance, may be vast displays with gauges, maps and video images arranged at whim
DIED. WILLIAM SIMON, 72, philanthropist, Treasury Secretary under Nixon and Ford and the "energy czar" who helped stem public hysteria during the '70s oil crisis; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...interspersed with gentler scenes: a young girl handing a G.I. a daisy, French peasants pitching hay even in a bomb-ravaged countryside, Thanksgiving turkeys being air-dropped to U.S. soldiers in the Far East. But these reprieves are brief: unlike the relentlessly pro-Allied cinematic morale boosters made by Ford and others at the time, Shooting War also shows an Australian infantryman using a flamethrower on a screaming Japanese soldier in Borneo, as well as Japanese orphans shaking uncontrollably from radiation sickness after the U.S. dropped the atom bomb...