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Yonkers (pop. 191,000), an industrial suburb just north of New York City, is a place divided. To the east of the Saw Mill River Parkway live most of the city's whites; to the west live most of its blacks and other minorities. In what may turn out to be a landmark civil rights decision, Federal Judge Leonard Sand ruled last week that the deliberate concentration of low-income housing projects on Yonkers' west side resulted in a racially segregated public school system that "has clearly worked to the disadvantage of minority students." It was the first time that...
...bribery, fraud, illegal speculation and tax evasion." To make sure the Chinese public got the message, the sentencing hearing was broadcast on national television and the culprits were shown with their heads bowed and shaved. Most prominent among them was Yin Zhinong, a retired deputy manager of a steel mill and longtime Communist Party member. Yin got a six-year prison term for speculation and was stripped of his party membership. Said a Western diplomat: "Clearly a message was being sent." The general thrust: that government officials and ordinary Chinese citizens may finally get equal justice. Noted an elderly Communist...
...says Jacob, it is a poverty-related problem. "It has a greater impact on the black community because it is a poor community." Indeed, poor whites as well as blacks tend to have high rates of teenage pregnancy. In the largely white community of North Adams, Mass., an old mill town where unemployment has been high, teen pregnancy is reaching epidemic levels. One out of five births at North Adams Regional Hospital is to an adolescent, and 90% of the young mothers wind up on welfare. "I'm seeing a world where kids feel being pregnant is a viable option...
...When you process the video, you say "buh-bye" to the camcorder itself, but you get in its place a disc that plays in most run-of-the-mill DVD players. In a small family, a DVD library of precious moments alone could be worth the expense of product and processing, but there's a whole sharing service...
There are plenty of singing groups for the elderly. Most of them croon standards such as Down by the Old Mill Stream and Let Me Call You Sweetheart. But Young@Heart is a different cut altogether. This silver-haired troupe, ranging in age from 73 to 91 (average age: 80), plays to far younger audiences (think 18 to 50) that want to hear songs they love or grew up with--and see them performed. These performers are about a lot more than singing. They take music and put it together with dramatic costumes, scenery and dance movements, and are accompanied...