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...moral appeal, however, the Kansas City plan's achievements appear modest when weighed against its enormous expense. The number of out-of-district white children enrolled at the magnet schools peaked at 1,476 last year. Standardized test scores have registered slight gains. White flight, while substantially slowed, has not been reversed: in 1985, the year before the magnet plan began, the district was 73.6% minority; this year it is 75.9% minority. If nothing else, horrible school facilities have been replaced with nice new ones, and for some that is justification enough. "I bet a lot of kids in Kansas...
...past year, even as the market bubbled. So CEO Bill Smithburg is under pressure to get profits flowing again at the $6.3 billion company. The board even canceled his bonus. Quaker's Gatorade sports drink is No. 1 in its category. But the company has more modest aims for Snapple, which has less than 5% of the soft-drink market and tons of competitors. Quaker is spending $40 million on a series of humorous TV spots that alternately praise rival colas and stress Snapple's determination "to be No. 3"--behind Coke and Pepsi, that is. For stockholders...
...growth of the Internet, there's new interest in all kinds of "intelligent" machinery--not just chess-playing supercomputers or grandiose AI research projects like CYC and Cog. The past few years have seen a burst of entrepreneurial activity in what are called intelligent agents--programs of rather more modest IQ that are nonetheless smart enough to be released on the Internet to do small, useful chores like tracking stock prices or digging for nuggets of research data...
Corot was lucky in having a modest private income--his parents were well-off dressmakers in Paris--and he did not need to labor constantly on the big machines that spelled success or failure at the Salons. So he could work on the studies for their own sake, and these, not the bigger works, entitle him to be seen as a true precursor of Impressionism. Many of his lithographs and etchings of landscape have the same vitality. Full of wind and weather, they show pleasure in the mark for its own sake--Corot was a terrific scribbler at his best...
...Persian New Year, sees a beautiful goldfish in a pet shop window. Fish are an elemental part of the Persian New Year celebration, which occurs on the first day of spring and lasts for thirteen days. The goldfish in the pet shop is expensive for the family's rather modest income. But with the help of her brother, the little girl, Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani), convinces her mother to buy the fish for their New Year ceremony...