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...right? Is the federation of different peoples into superpolitical structures the wave of the future? Or is the breakup of such polyglot structures as the Soviet Union into their ethnic elements the norm...
...will Angelenos use the $800 million line? Says Norm Jester, director of rail activation for the Rail Construction Corporation: "It will be attractive enough to encourage people to leave cars behind." The line is expected to carry 35,000 daily passengers the first year and 54,000 by the year 2000. That will leave more than enough of L.A.'s 4 1/2 million auto commuters to clog freeways well into the next century...
...want to know about each other as sexual beings. Sex is the point of separation, the country into which a parent does not travel with a child." That is one reason why school sex-education courses, which put the subject at a clinical remove, have become the norm...
...literature, led by two social studies teachers, two language-arts teachers and one special-education teacher. These classes include some of the brightest youngsters as well as the slowest, an approach Hohmann calls "teamstreaming." Teaching together takes more time, commitment and compromise, but it is rapidly becoming the norm at Fairdale -- a development that pleases ninth-grade teacher Brenda Butler. "I love the changes," she says. "We finally have an opportunity to voice our opinions and make decisions about student learning...
Such passionate debate makes it unlikely that primary-grade classrooms for black boys will become the norm anytime soon. Still, unless something else is done to make single-parent black homes more supportive of these children, or to help reduce their soaring dropout and suspension rates, the idea could attract more disciples -- ironically hastening the day when "separate but equal" may actually help black youths rather than hurt them...