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Sugarloaf encourages its employees to mentor, on company time, teenagers at Mount Abram High School. District career coordinator Gary Perlson, who oversees the mentoring program, attests to its effectiveness. Says he: "In the class of 2000, 30% graduated with mentors, and of those, 98% went on to the military or postsecondary education. Before we began the mentoring program three years ago, the figure for the graduating class was often as low as 45%." As the biggest business in the area, Sugarloaf has a stake in the students. Many are the children of staff members, and all are potential customers...
...Bush gets viciously personal, Gore will be able to mount a devastating counterattack. Edit in your mind a quick-cut television ad showing George W. Bush groping for the names of heads of state, garbling sentences, saying "hostile" when he means "hostage" - a procession of he's-not-ready moments that would reinforce the most damaging rap against Bush (he's not smart enough) and emphasize Al Gore's strength...
...that all children lose academic ground over the summer, scoring an average of one month lower on standardized exams than they did the previous spring. For disadvantaged students, who often spend summer break plopped in front of TV reruns rather than at day camps or on family treks to Mount Rushmore, the loss in reading can be twice that...
...find out, for it's emergence is a study in the warp-speed politics of the age of the Internet. This is a time when a Web designer named Craig Winters can start an organization called the Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food with a staff of one (himself), mount a website and sell 160,000 "Take Action Packets" in nine weeks. Want to know what the Chileans are doing about transgenic grain shipments? How South Korean labeling laws work? Just subscribe to one of the four biotech e-mail lists of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, based...
Class actions pose a far greater threat because they give plaintiffs the ability to mount ever larger legal offensives. Armies of lawyers could represent thousands of plaintiffs, and the potential losses would be correspondingly larger. And the cost of defending the cases would escalate. Tobacco companies have succeeded in blocking 24 lawsuits around the country from proceeding as class actions, and they expected to do that in Florida too. But plaintiffs' lawyer Stanley Rosenblatt persuaded the Florida courts--over heated objections from the other side--to let him represent a stateful of smokers...