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...involved in fights or gangs because they know someone is always watching. They are less embarrassed to discuss problems with teachers. They have better attendance, lower dropout rates and more participation in extracurricular activities. "It doesn't matter what category you measure," says Kathleen Cotton, a researcher at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Ore. "Things are better in smaller environments. Shy kids, poor kids, the average athletes--they all are made to feel like they...
...risk, no reward. "You have to be in the game to win," says Gary Wilson, whose daring buyout of Northwest Airlines nearly ruined him before minting him a fortune. That's about as basic as it gets--and the chief argument for owning stocks...
...Hayes began running the Bullitt Foundation, an endowment in Seattle that funds green projects in the Pacific Northwest. But the coming of the new millennium brought another test: take Earth Day to new heights in 2000. Besides the rallies, concerts, seminars and TV shows, Hayes plans to use a magic wand he didn't have in 1970 or 1990: the Internet. Through e-mail, websites and live Web events, Earth Day participants will be globally linked as never before. "Earth Day is for the environment what Martin Luther King Day is for civil rights," Hayes says. "We know what...
Warshavsky isn't exactly a Northwest Hugh Hefner, although he has accumulated some nice toys. He lives in an expensive condo decorated with Asian antiquities, across the street from his expansive downtown-Seattle office suite. "I don't live like the average 26-year-old," he admits. His latest purchase: a Porsche 911 Cabriolet to go along with his Jaguar and speed boat. He grew up in Seattle, and entertained neighborhood kids with magic tricks, including one in which an audience member put a coin in a varnished box. Warshavsky then made the coin disappear...
There's another option being explored in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. At night, what used to be dark hillsides are strung with lights from new tract housing. Those twinkling lights worked on Steve Bennett, a soft-spoken high school history teacher, until he'd had enough. Three years ago he co-founded SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) to get antisprawl initiatives on the ballot. It took just nine weeks last year for Bennett and his allies to collect the 75,000 signatures they needed. In November, large majorities in four of Ventura's five largest cities...