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...A.A.U.W. proposals offered last week lean toward such predictable remedies as improved teacher training or further studies and avoid bold proposals suggested by the research, such as sex-segregated math and science classes. Diane Ravitch, an Assistant Secretary of Education, complains that much of the report "is just special pleading and, frankly, whining." Opportunities are opening up, she says, and girls should be urged to take advanced courses, not told that they are victims. Chester Finn, director of Vanderbilt University's Educational Excellence Network, thinks disparities simply show that students have different interests and abilities. He considers gender complaints...
...Lexus and Infiniti. "GM always knew how to build big cars, so it's no surprise that's where the new strength lies," says auto critic Jim Dunne, Detroit editor of Popular Mechanics. The car is full-bodied, but Buick's design team has succeeded in giving it a lean, light-footed profile...
...first glance the poblaciones or shantytowns of Penalolen appear to be a desolate, stagnant world far from the bustling, metropolitan center. Small houses, shacks and lean-tos of cardboard and corregated tin crowd together along unpaved streets that turn to impassable floods of mud in the winter. Delinquents hang out on the highway edging the shantytowns, passing a joint and listening to salsa on a battered radio, casting hostile glances at passers...
...fallout from the '80s has given consumers, who account for two-thirds of all spending, an abiding fear of being laid off as companies retrench for lean times. Since the recession began in July 1990, more than 1.6 million jobs have been lost. The Labor Department reported last week that the unemployment rate in September slipped a notch, to 6.7% from 6.8% the previous month. While President Bush hailed the movement as "one more sign that the economy is strengthening," many economists and investors saw little to cheer. Among other grim signs, the labor statistics showed that the number...
...Anatoli," said M.S., "we've got to do something. I will lean on that scum" -- he meant General Generalov, Plekhanov's deputy, who was put in charge of the security forces and became our warden. "I will slap him with demands every day. And I'll keep the pressure...