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According to many high school students,violence is a problem in every community and notjust in Cambridge. The students announced theirplan to launch anti-violence curriculuminitiatives for elementary and junior highschools...
Richmond wrote a book about his experience and eventually helped launch the first school based entirely on his Microsociety model. After much sniffing and sneering from the local newspaper, which dismissed the idea as "futuristic," "dubious" and "a gimmick," City Magnet School opened in 1981 in a empty library in Lowell, Massachusetts. By 1987 the school's students were testing two years above the national norm in both reading and math. Then in 1990, 13 eighth-graders passed first-year college-level exams, again in reading and math. School attendance hovers around 96%, and during the past six years only...
...life. But we're really trying, really we are." Ten days after Andrew struck, the army's tent cities finally opened and relief supplies were so plentiful that residents became choosy, disdaining cans of lentils and demanding Tide over Cheer. By then it was safe to launch the debate about what needs to change so that next time, the help is there as soon as the storm has passed...
BILL CLINTON's answer to the Bush campaign's emphasis on noneconomic issues has been to show that he, unlike the President, has a plan. His latest strategy involves using Macintosh computers to launch a high-tech assault intended to inform voters of exactly what that plan is. Drop by your local Democratic Party headquarters, and you too can access the Bill Clinton Interactive Kiosk, a multimedia presentation complete with moving pictures in which voters can view the candidate speaking to a rapt audience on 12 topics such as defense, the economy and welfare reform. Voters can even take home...
...escapist drivel, meanwhile, is going after a younger crowd. TV's hottest new genre is the twentysomething ensemble show. Melrose Place (a spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210), The Heights (about a group of blue-collar New Jersey youths trying to launch a rock band) and 2000 Malibu Road, a soap opera set in a California beach house, all drew strong ratings this summer. Coming this fall are NBC's The Round Table (young professionals in Washington), Fox's Class of '96 (students at a small Northeastern college) and a slew of youth- oriented sitcoms...