Word: magnetism
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...public, private or parochial schools. States and the Federal Government would split the $5 billion cost. While dead set against using public money to send children to private school, the White House supports a form of school choice in which parents could shop among competing public schools. That means magnet schools, which offer enhanced programs, or the independent "charter" schools, now found in many states, which set their own rules in matters like what to teach and how to spend money, but are subject to government oversight and evaluation...
...body, leaving it up to the Governor and state legislature. That means there will be ample opportunity to devise an integration strategy that the state's citizens can live with. More than likely, both sides agree, the eventual solution will emphasize voluntary programs such as cross-district transfers and magnet schools that will benefit all students. There was no reason for panic--though state officials' heated rhetoric threatened to produce some...
...products of science shape and pervade our lives. Sir Francis Bacon made this point in 1620. "Printing, gunpowder, and the magnet," he wrote, "have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world...no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs." Modern equivalents are legion: consider e-mail, nuclear weapons, biotechnology...
...magnet affair goes beyond dollars and yuan. U.S. intelligence learned last year that a Chinese company had sold devices to Pakistan that are used to produce enriched uranium for nuclear warheads. The amount of money involved was small--less than $100,000--but the implications for the proliferation of nuclear weapons were very great. Although U.S. law called for sanctions against China, Secretary of State Warren Christopher ruled against them after receiving private pledges from his counterpart, Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Qian told Christopher the top leaders had not known about the transaction and would make sure...
...strike against the Vietnam War. A TIME contributor since last October, Kunen spent many hours visiting classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, and Norfolk, Virginia, observing students and teachers wrestling with the problems posed by separate but unequal education. But whomever he talked to, from black nationalists to advocates of magnet schools to staunch integrationists, he discovered a common goal that transcended race. "I found," he says, "that all parents, black and white, wanted the same thing for their children: the best education possible...