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...billion they bet on the ponies last year was only slightly less than the horse-racing wagers of France. A gambling tax in Hong Kong contributes significantly to government coffers. The HKJC is the city's largest single taxpayer, accounting for 11.5% of total tax revenue last year. A nonprofit that gives away its surplus as charity, the club has been one of Hong Kong's most munificent benefactors, with its donations funding schools, hospitals and construction of such landmarks as Victoria Park, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Hong Kong Stadium. Last year, after the SARS epidemic...
Restoring family unity for households in which children have careened out of control is the express goal of Spring Creek and the six other behavior-modification programs affiliated with the nonprofit World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) that oversee these for-profit juvenile boot camps. They clearly fill a need; about 2,500 students are enrolled in WWASPS programs. Yet in recent years, most of the schools have come under attack on charges of abuse, including food and sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, alleged beatings and the deaths of at least two children. In September the association...
...other award, which recognizes an individual who has made major contributions in community service or advocacy, honored Wendy Kopp, 37, the founder of the nonprofit Teach for America...
...courses and exams. Back in 1955, when AP was introduced, there were 11 courses. By 1990 there were 29. Today there are 34, ranging from Music Theory to Computer Science. Next fall there will be three more: Italian, Russian and Chinese. It's a booming business for the nonprofit College Board, which sells teaching guides and seminars to instructors, study guides and practice exams to students, and charges $82 for an AP exam. (Much of this covers the costs of paying high school teachers and college professors to grade the exams, which include essays as well as multiple-choice questions...
...popularity and fecundity, is the most dramatic new influence on a justice system that has always been affected by books, movies and TV. "When Perry Mason first aired, lawyers were not allowed to approach witnesses to question them," says Christopher Stone, director of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit that promotes innovation in the justice system. "But you couldn't fit Mason and the witness in the same frame, so the directors had Mason walk over and lean on the witness rail. Then juries expected lawyers to do that, and if they didn't, jurors thought something was wrong...