Word: magnetically
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Armor has often testified in court hearings about mandatory busing plans. His personal hope for further progress boils down to a mixture of mandated school improvements-for instance, a court-ordered increase in the number of "magnet" schools to draw qualified whites and blacks from all corners of a city-and vigorously promoted voluntary school integration. The only hopeful example he gives, however, is San Diego. Using a voluntary system, the city has kept the level of white flight down (below 6% per year). But the increase in the actual number of whites and nonwhites going to school together...
BOSTON. For years racial antagonism and resistance to busing forced educational progress into a back seat. There has been notable white flight from Boston. But 25 new magnet schools have taken some of the sting out of forced integration by drawing a multiracial student body, which attends voluntarily and comes from all over the city to get high-grade training...
...women who are loath to have their ears pierced, there is a new, no-bore way to wear earrings that nestle close to the lobe without clips. A magnetized earring is held in place by a minute cobalt-and-samarium magnet on the invisible side. Price: from $7.50 to $25. One trouble is that in telephonic or amatorial exercise the quarter-inch magnet is as easy to lose as a contact lens; some stores, like Saks Fifth Avenue, will remagnetize the lady without charge. No questions asked...
...judge), director of the Center for National Policy Review, a public interest law group that specializes in civil rights: "Some people thought the law was changing, but this decision is an indication that there are still legal requirements. That doesn't mean that you can't have magnet schools and improve the educational offering. What it means is that you can't use the magnet schools as a substitute for true desegregation...
Joseph Hannon, Chicago school superintendent: "We feel magnet schools are effective. Just because the courts find a problem with one desegregation program, the rubric doesn't have to be placed on every other plan. Uniquely each city has to develop its plan based on its needs...