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...from members of the school's newly formed alumni association. Reynolds' alumni are also visiting every public high school in the city, where the enrollment is 90% black, seeking to recruit students of promise. Says Richard Starling, president of the alumni association: "We're like a funnel. We want to move minority students from the high schools into the community college, and then we'll steer them to a four-year institution...
...Funnel-web, n.: a type of venomous spider...
...simple concrete floor, for example, the architect, London's Foster Associates, suggested an opaque glass central plaza under the building that would glow, as Munden puts it, "like a carpet of light." The bank's directors also showed interest in a giant, mirrored sun scoop to funnel sunshine into the building's interior (cost: $20 million...
...History concentrator compares the process of advancing through the levels of competitive play to slipping through a funnel. "When you're smaller, in the Pee Wees, says, there's a lot of kids playing, and as you go up there are fewer and fewer...
Burke has held his own with the other players who have made it through the funnel to play ECAC hockey. "He's a good hockey player," says fellow forward Bill Larson, who scored the winning goal in the '81 final. "He's a hard worker and he handles the puck well...