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...communities are braced for the challenge of multilingualism. At Salina Elementary School in the shadow of the hulking Ford Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, 90% of the students are native speakers of Arabic. Academically, many of them lag far behind other students in the district. Earlier this year, spurred by the possibility of a five-year, $5 million federal grant, school superintendent Jeremy Hughes proposed forming a two-way Arabic-English program. Not only was the proposal rejected by the local board of education after heated public criticism, but it opened the way for a wholesale attack on bilingual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUTTING TONGUES IN CHECK | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...then a creeping fear and perhaps a few fretful, secretive exchanges before the news finally comes out. In the case of "Mary Smith,'' a 15-year-old freshman at Blair High School, and her 16-year-old boyfriend Heath Mayfield, a junior varsity running back with a spanking-new Ford Mustang, the pregnancy was well into the fifth month before they finally confirmed it with a home-test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALLING THE COPS ON A PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

Fresh from a two-year sabbatical in Washington, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel assumed the directorship of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research this month...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Vogel Takes Over Fairbank Center | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...from the press there, and works hard to play down the trappings of celebrity. "People say, 'How do you do it?' I say, 'Stay away from show business,'" Crichton said earlier this month. He was driving to lunch, headed inland from the coast in one of those heavy-browed Ford things that take a lot of fossil fuel to slake. A couple of years ago, he was peeved that a Vanity Fair article said he drove a tonier, more expensive Land Rover. Then, he had marched this interviewer to the window in his office and pointed at the brawny Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEET MISTER WIZARD | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Perhaps if Ford, and corporate America in general, spent less time on public relations [BUSINESS, Sept. 4] and more time on quietly getting things done in a steady and unwavering pursuit of excellence, it would not be forced to play catch up so often. How appropriate that Ford's best-selling car is named after the bull. IAN M. HODGE Rochester, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1995 | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

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