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...still remember the collective groan that went up in the locker room when coach D'Souza said we would be traveling to Calicut for a football game. That was in 1982, and for us big-city sophisticates in Cochin, Calicut was a one-horse town in the middle of nowhere. Even I, who had never been there, knew the place was a crushing bore: no ice-cream parlors (the preferred hangouts of early-80s Indian teens), no good record stores and - this was the killer - no girls' schools famous for beauteous babes. We moaned about it the entire five-hour...
...speeds past the slower Peruvian defender, and only the goalie stands between him and the goal. Uniformed library guards, bankers and—as in my case—students who have spent their afternoon researching eagerly rise in expectation of a can’t-miss goal...and groan loudly as the striker blows the shot...
Recognizing that, civic activists are finding new ways to take on old problems - and new ways to take on new ones. They are battling problems that have no simple cause or solution, injustices that groan under the weight of words like systemic and insidious. Government's shrinking role means activists take over services once performed by bureaucrats: a cross-country cyclist becomes a consultant who eases traffic jams; a former civil rights activist flies to Mississippi each week to teach math in a way that lets students actually learn it. At the same time, modern activists must find ways...
Recognizing that, civic activists are finding new ways to take on old problems--and new ways to take on new ones. They are battling problems that have no simple cause or solution, injustices that groan under the weight of words like systemic and insidious. Government's shrinking role means activists take over services once performed by bureaucrats: a cross-country cyclist becomes a consultant who eases traffic jams; a former civil rights activist flies to Mississippi each week to teach math in a way that lets students actually learn it. At the same time, modern activists must find ways...
Into this anxious mix have stepped hucksters and marketers who see worried parents as the most promising pigeons. Store shelves groan with new products purported to stimulate babies' brains in ways harried parents don't have time for. There are baby Mozart tapes said to enhance spatial reasoning and perhaps musical and artistic abilities too. There are black, white and red picture books, said to sharpen visual acuity. There are bilingual products said to train baby brains so they will be more receptive to multiple languages. The hard sell even follows kids to the one place you'd think they...