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Chicago's downtown Metro High School has created a course in energy careers. Students pursue individual projects, such as assessing the effectiveness of the city's fuel use, and are aided by Shaeffer & Roland, an environmental management firm. Says Teacher Frances Vandervoort, grandly: "By 1980 there a will be 300,000 jobs in solar energy alone, and we are helping prepare our students for these opportunities." At suburban Evanston Township High School, an architectural drawing program includes the study of solar heating, wind generators and maximum use of insulation. At a recent science fair at Brooklyn's Roy Mann Intermediate...
James Ellis, 56, a softspoken, cerebral lawyer, has been offering urban solutions since the 1950s, when he headed the citizens' group that conceived Metro, a regional agency that has city-county jurisdiction. Long before the Federal Government started spending money for such projects, Metro mounted a campaign in the 1950s to clean up Puget Sound and Lake Washington, one of the city's aquatic play grounds. Metro later took over and revived the countywide transportation network, creating a park-ride system to bring in suburbanites, a weekend bus service to ski areas and free fares to the downtown...
...video console that beams forth his face, like a T.V. newscaster's. Making movies has become like factory work for Godard, he admits, saying, "Now there are only machines. I am the boss, but I am also the worker...There are other factories: in Los Angeles, called Fox and Metro, in Moscow, in Algeria..." He then fills the screen with the flashbacks to May '68 and Vietnam. But the news footage, like Godard's revolutionary zeal and assurance, is dwarfed by the monitors, knobs and gadgetry that make news broadcasting possible. Like an electric scoreboard, one video monitor flashes...
...reading center this summer. Amy, who starts the fifth grade in September, and a dozen or so other fourth-through sixth-graders will read and compile handbooks on the subject of transportation. They will also take field trips to Washington's Air and Space Museum, ride the Metro and travel down the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on a mule-drawn barge. What were Amy's qualifications to join the highly selective group? Well, for one thing, the directors felt that she showed a strong potential for leadership...
...help the tribe as well. Instead of showing their friendship by pricking fingers and mixing blood like so many Tom Sawyers, the Big Four directors-Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg and Lucas-have traded scripts and sometimes even percentage points of the profits from their new films. They are not yet Metro, Goldwyn...