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...Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), who has traveled to China to lecture at Drexel's sister school there, presented Jiang with a parting gift. As Weldon described the dual importance of cultivating the mind and the body, he pulled out a white and orange Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey with Jiang's name in black...
...bureaucracy. Race, in a city that remains deeply if informally segregated, merely intensified the us-against-them outlook of school administrators. Many outside observers say the school aristocracy came to view the black underclass as beyond help. David Rostetter, now a court-appointed overseer of schools in Chester, Pa., once studied Baltimore's school system at the request of the city's federal court. "What you have," he says, "is a black middle class being created on the backs of their own failure to educate the city's kids." He hastens to add that inbred white school districts behave...
When Carol Avery talks about her goddaughter's experience learning to read, she too begins to cry. Avery, from Millersville, Pa., recently served as president of the National Council of Teachers of English. Like most other members of that organization, she is a committed, sincere believer in whole language. "Mary knew how to read when she got to first grade," Avery says. "I asked her what she read in school, and she said, 'We don't read stories; we do papers.'" By "papers" Mary meant phonics work sheets. "She had a terrible time that year," Avery continues, now holding back...
Robert Paffenroth, a regional account manager for Lucent Technologies, was relaxing on a recent flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New York City. He had left his home in Pittsburgh, Pa., the previous afternoon and flown to Raleigh, N.C., via Cincinnati and at 4:10 p.m. the next day was on his way to his office on Long Island. He had traveled all four legs on Comair's 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets. He was thrilled, a feeling that commuter-airline passengers usually get only in dicey weather. "I have some reservations when I'm told I'm flying a Delta...
...using Comair's smaller jets in at least two dozen cities--among them Minneapolis, Orlando, Kansas City and Philadelphia--to adjust capacity when demand is too low for bigger jets. Delta has pulled 737s or MD-80s out of such cities as St. Louis, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from St. Louis to Cincinnati is Comair service," says David Anderson, a Delta executive in Cincinnati. There are even some advantages to the smaller jets. Says Paffenroth: "This is every bit as quick as a large plane, and it loads and unloads...