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...institution touted the new service as a breakthrough in consumer finance. For $12 a month, customers equipped with personal computers and telephone modems could tap into the bank's electronic ledgers and handle many of their banking chores from the comfort of home. Chemical viewed it as both a high-tech lure to draw new customers and a strategic first step toward a checkless, cashless future...
...reason: Cameron was just one of at least 103 Aborigines to die while in police custody or prison since 1980. Says criminologist David Biles of the shockingly high death toll: "An Aboriginal person is 20 times more likely than a white to die in custody...
What is inflation? What causes a budget deficit? Many adults know the answers all too well, but most high school students have no idea. So says a survey released last week by the New York-based Joint Council on Economic Education, which found that only one out of three high school students in its 41-state poll could define such basic concepts as profit and the law of supply and demand. The 8,205 eleventh- and twelfth-graders who took the 40-minute multiple-choice test correctly answered less than 40% of the 46 questions. Declared William Walstad...
Though some of the questions dealt with difficult concepts or called for subjective judgments, the results showed that many high schools are failing to get even the basics across. Only 16 states insist that all students take an economics course to graduate...
...challenge. At issue is the freedom of a filmmaker -- or any artist -- to twist the facts as they are recalled, to shape the truth as it is perceived. May a movie libel the historical past? And has Mississippi Burning done so? Artistic liberty vs. social responsibility: the stakes are high. The memories are indelible. The battle lines are drawn...