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...Darling-Hammond enters the picture, the fluctuations get sharper and closer together. High: Darling-Hammond, a respected national leader in public school restructuring, look to be a leading candidate. Low: she takes herself from the running in January. High: she reconsiders, accepts, and in May isgreeted into the University inner circle withtypical Harvard fanfare...
...Fogg Art Museum, a brick building on Quincy Street not far from the Union, feels like an art gallery. And the acoustics in its cavernous inner atrium are perfect for the occasional chamber music performance...
Other researchers blame the jump in asthma rates on gaps in the availability of health care, particularly in the U.S. In Chicago and New York City, the number of hospitalizations for acute attacks in chil dren under age four has surged. "A black child in the inner city has a 13- to 16-fold better chance of dying from asthma than his white suburban counterpart," says Dr. James Wedner, an allergist at Washington University in St. Louis. Poor or uninsured asthmatics often get medical attention only on a crash basis at the hospital emergency room. They receive no treatment...
...There's a very small inner circle around Ice that is hard to break into. It's a carryover from the street attitude: I got your back if you got mine." Ice-T also keeps in touch with some of his friends who are now in prison, sending them tapes or packages...
...join." And, like diseases, gangs can be contagious. According to University of Southern California gang expert Malcolm W. Klein, in 1961 there were 23 cities with known street gangs nationwide. Today there are 187. Practically every state has some kind of gang problem. Nor is it limited to inner-city areas of major urban centers. Gangs can be found in suburban cities with populations as small...