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...city's struggles are the result of a--until recently--booming economy, and in that respect San Francisco mirrors what's taking place in Austin, Seattle, New York and other cities that have benefited from a hefty infusion of cash: unprecedented housing prices, hellish traffic and a growing gap between the haves and have-nots. The difference in San Francisco--apart from its jewel-like beauty--may lie in its mythology...
...Globalization did not create the gap between rich and poor. But there is a gap in globalization," he said. "Globalization has raised the moral cost of indifference. We can still choose not to act. But we can no longer choose not to know...
...bigots who claim that proves they can't ever measure up. There's simply no excuse for black youngsters with college-educated parents to perform worse than white youths whose folks only finished high school. The only way to silence the critics is to close the black achievement gap, not to throw out the test because we're embarrassed by the results...
Over the years, the gap between cost and reimbursement has only grown wider. Today the Medicare rate for a mammogram stands at about $69, yet the cost incurred by the imaging centers can run anywhere from $100 to $150. "We're basically operating a charity," says Dr. Mark Dennis, a radiologist at the Sally Jobe Breast Center in Englewood, Colo., whose six clinics performed more than 50,000 mammograms last year and reportedly lost $120,000, most of it on mammograms. "We can afford to keep our doors open only because our mammography sites perform other types of services...
...Latin stars like Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Carlos Santana are releasing numerous ballroom songs that appeal to young audiences. Jim Anzelmo, an 18-year-old senior at Madison's Edgewood High who takes ballroom as a gym elective, was strongly influenced by a 1998 ad for the Gap featuring handsome young people doing the lindy hop. He remembers thinking, "It would be great to learn to dance like that...