Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government is investing heavily, having spent $90 million since 1974 on development of recyclable, high-efficiency batteries for electric cars and planning annual outlays of $182 million on solar-wind- and wave-energy research. Last year a government-support ed, high- speed train called ice started whizzing between Hamburg and Munich...
...Pastore, claims that crime actually dropped 20% over the past two years, perhaps because of the improved relationship between city workers and the community. Meanwhile, referrals to drug-treatment centers increased. These results have enabled policymakers elsewhere to break the logjam. Says New York City's health commissioner Margaret Hamburg: "It all came together in the New Haven experiment...
Youngsters ages 10 to 15 are also vulnerable. "The original idea of junior high school was to ease the transition from childhood to adulthood," notes Hamburg. "Unfortunately, junior high has become a replica of high school. There are no distinctive social relationships or curriculum. It's actually wound up forcing children to make the transition to adulthood even earlier." Hamburg favors abolishing junior highs, or at the least radically reforming them, by creating smaller, more intimate schools within larger institutions and setting up a curriculum in the sciences and health that builds on students' natural preoccupation with their changing bodies...
...major stumbling block to reform, Hamburg notes, is not a lack of money: simply reallocating current resources could yield dramatic gains. The higher hurdle is social selfishness. "People resist giving up what they have," he explains. One group that may be called on to sacrifice is the elderly, on whom vast sums are spent to sustain the last few weeks of life. Says Hamburg, who is 66: "People my age need to understand that our well-being depends on the workers of the next generation. Moreover, as a society, we've got to stop concentrating on the short-time horizons...
SOCIETY Carnegie's Hamburg looks at the needs of a lost generation...