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...combat rising illiteracy in America, recalls Toni Fay, director of corporate community relations, "Our ^ research indicated that there was a lack of high-interest materials. We thought we could motivate students to read through a careful use of TIME." Ester Connelly, who manages the Time Education Program in Yardley, Pa., was charged with devising a curriculum outline and one-day training course that would enable volunteers to teach reading and vocabulary through use of the magazine's advertisements, headlines and captions, as well as its articles...
Other divisions and subsidiaries around the country became involved in the program. Volunteers from Book-of-the-Month Club worked with inmates of the Camp Hill State Correction Institution in Camp Hill, Pa. Retired employees from the Time Inc. Information Systems group tutored adults at the Chicago Public Library. ATC Cablevision employees worked to improve the reading skills of city workers in Charlotte, N.C., and of adults in Orlando, and Southern Progress magazines "adopted" Lewis Elementary School in Birmingham...
...Chicago, Ill.; Phyllida A. Burlingame '88 of Adams House and Katonah, N.Y.; Adam J. Epstein '88 of Quincy House and Orinda, Calif.; Casey J. Lartigue of Dudley House and Houston, Tex.; Michael J. Lartigue of Dudley House and Houston, Tex.; David M. Lazarus '89 of Pennypacker Hall and Broomall, Pa.; Benjamin R. Miller '89 of Thayer Hall and Baltimore, Md.; Mary E. Sarotte '88 of Mather House of Morristown, N.J.; Gregory R. Schwartz '89 of Canaday Hall and New York, N.Y.; Alan Z. Segal '89 of Canaday Hall and Vestal, N.Y.; Sophia A. Van Wingerden '89 of Lionel Hall...
March 28, 1979. In the biggest U.S. mishap, one of two reactors at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pa., lost its coolant because of equipment malfunctions and human error. The loss of coolant caused the radioactive fuel to overheat and led to a partial meltdown. Some radioactive material escaped, but a potentially major disaster was averted. Although no one is known to have died as a result of the accident, the hazard posed to local residents is still being debated...
...party-line 21-11 vote, the panel agreed to the $994.2 billion spending plan proposed by committee Chairman William H. Gray III, D-Pa. It would reduce the deficit next year to $137 billion, $7 billion below the Senate budget passed last week and well within the statutory limit of $144 billion...