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...Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities, which has placed about 3,000 disabled people ages 18 to 22 in paid private-sector internships lasting as long as three or four months. The foundation has worked with 1,150 employers in various parts of the country, says foundation executive director Mark Donovan. Almost 90% of these people received job offers after their internships ended...
...face some of those problems, deeper changes in American attitudes are required, which will take time. "My sense is that things will really change maybe another generation or so down the road," says Mark Donovan of the Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities. Others are far more pessimistic. "Give it about another 100 years," says lawyer Pinnock. "Maybe then you'll see some real difference in attitudes." But as Pinnock himself has shown, no one need wait so long to carry the struggle at least a small distance forward...
...inflation over the past 20 years has been the result of the dominant leadership of Germany's fiercely anti-inflationary central bank. Other European countries had to follow Germany's low-inflation policy or accept the destabilizing consequences and political embarrassment of currency devaluations in relation to the deutsche mark. With a single European Central Bank, Germany can no longer be the standard setter for Europe. The end of that leadership in monetary policy, and the associated rise of political influence over monetary affairs, is a clear recipe for higher inflation...
After some historical ups and downs, homework in this country is at a high-water mark. In the early decades of the century progressive educators in many school districts banned homework in primary school in an effort to discourage rote learning. The cold war--specifically, the launch of Sputnik in 1957--put an end to that, as lawmakers scrambled to bolster math and science education in the U.S. to counter the threat of Soviet whiz kids. Students frolicked in the late 1960s and '70s, as homework declined to near World War II levels. But fears about U.S. economic competitiveness...
...sabotage. Attacks like those at the World Trade Center and U.S. embassies in the Middle East and Africa suggest that terrorist threats against the nation are on the rise, according to the President. "It's probably a good idea to draw attention to the problem," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But the timing of the announcement, in the midst of all the President's troubles, is a little bit suspicious. Moreover, the bottom line is that if a terrorist is really going to strike, there is probably little we can do to stop...