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...Union and other civil rights groups oppose the Young Women's Leadership School because it discriminates against boys; young men who deserve the same opportunities as these girls. Although Congress drafted Title IX in response to decades of bias against women, sexual discrimination is not a one-way street. Inner-city girls might learn more in the school's singlesex environment, but society cannot sanction any kind of discrimination. Civil rights laws, arbitrarily enforced, lose all moral standing...
SIHL operations are concentrated in three major areas: infrastructure, automobile parts and cigarettes. About half of 1997 earnings are expected to come from such things as the toll highway leading from Hongqiao international airport to Shanghai's inner ring road, and the North-to-South Elevated Expressway cutting through downtown. About 20% to 30% will derive from a joint venture that makes chassis, front suspensions, rear axles, steering and shock absorbers for the Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co. The third revenue stream is produced by Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co., a Hong Kong manufacturer of the popular Double Happiness cigarettes, which last...
This is school? Kindness is an ancient virtue, but the idea of formally teaching six- and seven-year-olds to give compliments in an inner-city public school is brand-new. In New Haven all students from kindergarten through high school take part in the district's Social Development Program, which weaves "emotional learning" exercises--like the ball-rolling game--into the fabric of an ordinary school day. School officials say problem-solving and stress-management skills are as essential as literature and long division to a '90s education. "We believe it needs to be comprehensive, just like science...
...change was so profound it spooked me. I'd done some reading by then on neurotransmitters, and I wasn't entirely comfortable with the notion that human laughter is, at bottom, a chemical phenomenon. After hearing from several friends how much more relaxed I looked, some whip-wielding inner Puritan took over and convinced me that I should throw away my pills...
METCO was established in 1963 by black parents and educators from the Boston area. It is the oldest large-scale transfer program of inner city students to suburban high schools and is extremely popular, with a waiting list that goes into the thousands...