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...source of jobs for Hispanic administrators, teachers and aides. In cities with large minority enrollments, says a Chicago school principal who requested anonymity, "those of us who consider bilingual education ineffective are afraid that if we say so we will lose our jobs." Lawrence Uzzell, president of Learn Inc., a Washington-based research foundation, contends that Hispanic educational activists are cynically protecting their own careers. Says Uzzell: "The more the Hispanic child grows up isolated, the easier it is for politicians to manipulate him as part of an ethnic voting bloc...
Milk producers are hoping that aseptics can help them regain some of the market share they have been steadily losing to other beverages. Dairymen, Inc., an 8,000-member cooperative based in Louisville, is now selling whole and low-fat milk in the new packs, as well as such flavored varieties as chocolate, strawberry, banana and fruit-punch milk. It is also exporting milk in aseptic packages to Nigeria and the Caribbean. Says Larry Johnson, Dairymen's vice president of marketing development: "It's opening up new markets...
...electronic encyclopedia is exactly the same as the printed version of the Academic American, published by Grolier Inc., which consists of 21 volumes, 28,000 articles and 9 million words. By comparison, the older and more respected Encyclopaedia Britannica has 30 volumes and 43 million words, while the World Book has 22 volumes and roughly 10 million words. Computerization, though, makes it relatively easy to update the Academic American, and a new version comes out every six months. An updated edition of the Britannica is published only annually, and the World Book is also modified once a year...
...During the DNA debate, I insisted that fame and fortune were reasons for science wanting to push ahead too fast. Not the only reason, but reasons. Now that Walter Gilbert has won the Nobel Prize and has made a fortune with Biogen, Inc., it would be nice if he wrote to me and admitted that I was right...
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