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...good place to ponder this puzzle -- or to find out anything else you ever wanted to know about mosquitoes -- is an innocuous-looking brick building near the University of Florida's Gainesville campus. Its halls nourish, among other obscure yet useful twigs of the mighty oak that is the U.S. government, the Mosquito Unit, or, as it is formally known, the Mosquito and Fly Research Unit at the Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Just a short stroll from Robb's home lies an oak-rimmed pasture, where the Grand Wizard hopes to fulfill his grandiose vision of the future. Shortly after Duke lost his bid to become Governor of Louisiana last year, Robb drew national attention to his idea for building a high-tech propaganda mill, complete with training on how to appear on television, history lessons and political instruction, even a drum-and-bagpipe corps. It would become an assembly line cranking out articulate, blow-dried Duke clones. "They always have these pictures of people in the Klan, flies buzzing around...
...spawning ground for many of the new ideas and programs designed to integrate the franchises into neighborhoods in which they operate has been the company's moral and intellectual McCenter, Hamburger University, set in its own 80-acre nature preserve near Oak Brook, Ill. Since 1979 the company has held affirmative-action seminars for its executives and managers there, as well as in many of the company's 40 regional offices, on such topics as how to manage the changing work force and handle career development for women, blacks and Hispanics. Each year 3,000 employees complete affirmative-action training...
...Long Island stores. One of them, Joe King, trains new employees. Kaufman says the key to his success with the disabled is "to try not to treat them differently." McDonald's has used Braille and its own kind of sign language as aids for impaired employees. At McDonald's Oak Brook headquarters, staff workers are sought from specialized schools, such as Gallaudet University and the Rochester Institute for Technology, which has an educational center for the deaf...
Soon even this partial sanctuary will be lost. In-Flight Phone Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill., a newcomer to the field, has begun installing advanced digital telephone systems in each and every seat, complete with video screens and ground data links that will revolutionize service in the sky. Each passenger will have a handset stowed in the armrest and a 4.5-in. by 6-in. screen mounted in the seat ahead, just above the tray table...