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...Hub Restaurant: I'll admit that the food is probably not worth the price you pay, but the view from the top of the Prudential Center certainly is. The newly-renovated restaurant has two rows of tables up against floor-to-ceiling windows, affording each patron a fabulous view of the city...
Montoursville has a population of 5,000, including 800 high school students. So it lives very much through its children. "The school is the hub of the community," says parent Donita Rodarmel. Groups of teenagers cried last week on its grounds. Beyond them, turn-of-the-century gingerbread houses lined the streets. From many of these homes fly small flags. Some are American flags, now at half-mast. But some are happy, multi-hued pennants, bearing sunflowers, bluebirds or other motifs. They are nothing necessary; just a little extracurricular effort to make life more pleasant and varied...
Once start-up costs were absorbed for remodeling school basements or buying modular units, the preschool and afterschool day care became mostly self-supporting: 85% of the $2 million program comes from parents' fees. "Schools should be a community hub," says fourth-grade teacher Darlene Shaw. In three decades at Sycamore Hills, she has witnessed profound change. "Out of my 23 students today, only one has a stay-at-home mom," she said. "Without consistent, quality day care, kids flounder. And for kids dealing with divorce and single-parent families, school is their stability when things are going crazy...
From the perspective of today's budgetary quandaries, we might see the funneling of federal funds into The Hub as an abuse of power. Indeed, it seems to fit the stereotype of the entrenched pre-Gingrich liberal regime. But despite the new national distant for such political practice, it is almost a fact of life in Boston...
...Secretary proceeded to outline the Clinton Administration's capitalist initiatives for the upcoming year. The foremost goal is to cement the "implementation" of trade agreements that promote the "U.S. as the hub of an increasingly open global free trading system." This expansionary mode includes a push to invite Chile to join Nafta. Among the most original proposals was Christopher's pledge to assist American environmental industries in order to "capture more of a $400 billion global market...