Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meant to close the achievement gap between poor and middle-class toddlers, researchers agree it has brought no lasting gains. Most say that's because Head Start has become more of a day-care service stressing health and nutrition, not literacy, as well as a jobs program for local mothers. It is true that kids can't learn unless they're healthy and well fed; but with no curriculum and loads of shoddy teachers, Head Start isn't living up to its potential...
...found in East Timor last week, it was in the U.N. compound in Dili, where a small group of aid workers, journalists and refugees kept up a heroic mission. Though Annan had ordered the compound shut on Wednesday, after militia groups attacked a U.N. food convoy, his local representatives revolted: fearing the 1,500 refugees in the compound would be massacred once the foreigners left, the staff members circulated petitions and announced they would stay. After a few hours of frantic negotiating, the U.N. left behind a skeleton staff of 84 people, who endured three days of nightmarish shelling...
...Local Boy Makes Good...
...Harvard's labor disputes reached a happy ending this week, as picket lines disbanded and the striking members of a local union went to work for a new contractor...
...been in place since 1953, in response to Pyongyang?s undertaking to refrain from missile testing. The announcement will allow trade in consumer goods between the U.S. and North Korea and investment by American firms in the country?s torpid economy. But don?t expect to see your local deli carrying North Korean kimchee any time soon ? prospects for trade may be somewhat limited by the fact that the famine-ridden communist country?s most important export in the post-Cold War years may well have been the very missiles it has now undertaken to curb...