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...kind of health-and-wellness program that has the right, under certain circumstances, to tell her what kind of shape she should try to get into--or take away her insurance coverage. The program, which is run by the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Nursing, has kept the city's health-care costs below average for the past five years. Still, Brantley has mixed feelings. "At first, I thought it was a nuisance. I thought they were trying to control us," she says. "But now it seems like a good thing. I know of cases where folks found...
...Ferrucci kept right on bothering senior goalie Michael LaRocco with lethal outside shots and had a total of five goals in the game...
...handful of firms that dominate the cereal industry. "Their rivalry is more akin to the choreographed grunts of televised wrestling than a cutthroat duel to the death," says John Connor, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. "The ultimate weapon, steep price cuts, is rarely used." That has kept profit margins high. Ronald Cotterill, director of the Food Marketing Policy Center at the University of Connecticut, estimates that cereal firms pocket an average of 17% of their sales as operating income, vs. 7% to 8% for the food industry as a whole...
...initially voted against the plan. When the federal court's ruling rendered the return to neighborhood schools inevitable, Wilson and the other dissenter changed their votes in exchange for a commitment that the all-black schools would be targeted for extra resources, though Wilson doubts the promise will be kept forever. (As Harvard School of Education sociologist Gary Orfield has observed, "A less powerful group isn't going to get disproportionate resources for a very long time from a more powerful group. It requires that water flow uphill.") For the 1993-94 school year, the district's average expenditure...
Young Park Elementary occupies a well-kept building set among the barracks-like structures of Norfolk's Young Terrace public housing project. Of its 341 students, 98% are black and 94% are poor enough to qualify for the free-lunch program. This year so far, the parents or guardians of 60 to 70 kids have joined the PTA. "Some of the children arrive at school not knowing their full name; they just know their nickname," says principal Ruby Greer, who has managed to improve test scores and attendance. "They don't know how to hold a pencil or a book...