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...NORM BELLINGHAM
...Microsociety model. After much sniffing and sneering from the local newspaper, which dismissed the idea as "futuristic," "dubious" and "a gimmick," City Magnet School opened in 1981 in a empty library in Lowell, Massachusetts. By 1987 the school's students were testing two years above the national norm in both reading and math. Then in 1990, 13 eighth-graders passed first-year college-level exams, again in reading and math. School attendance hovers around 96%, and during the past six years only five children have dropped out. Those numbers were impressive enough to inspire the New York school districts...
...bisexuals lack an established community or culture to help ease the process. For men, the confusion seems to surface during adolescence and early adulthood. Al, 38, of Chicago, recalls that during his troubled college years "there was almost no place I could go where bisexuality was part of the norm." Having "bought into the myth that bisexuality was a political cop-out," he swung between describing himself as straight and gay. But his distress was so great that "I went though a period of a year or two where I called myself 'unlabeled...
Even companies that are expanding see little reason to add new workers. That is partly because many firms have streamlined their operations and need fewer bodies, but also because firing -- not hiring -- has become the corporate norm. While Chrysler said last week it is investing $225 million to build a new line of Dodge pickup trucks in 1993, the company noted that it plans to add just 70 new jobs as a result of the program. "We're expecting to triple truck sales, and we're looking for a return to profitability," says a senior Chrysler executive. "Life is going...
...highest levels of the national media talent and ambition such as Sheery's are almost the norm. In a tremendously competitive business, ethical responsibility and even editorial supervision can too easily fall by the wayside while a reporter is intent on the big, prizewinning story. Wetlaufer describes this flaw, this loss of persepective and judgment that sometimes occurs in journalism, precisely...