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DIED. DON CHERRY, 58, jazz musician; of liver failure; near Malaga, Spain. In the 1950s, the trumpeter experimented with "free jazz" sound and rhythm opposite the sax of Ornette Coleman. By the '60s, Cherry was a world-music pioneer, exploring influences so diverse--South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Middle East--he was dubbed "the musical Marco Polo...
...speakers are mixed together, with half the curriculum taught in a foreign language and half taught in English. In Chicago five years ago, there were three such schools teaching in Spanish and English; today there are 20. In the District of Columbia, the Oyster Bilingual Elementary School is a pioneer in two-way education. Its student body is 58% Hispanic, 26% white, 12% black and 4% Asian, and after six years of Spanish-English curriculum, its sixth-graders score at a ninth-grade level in reading and a 10th-grade level in math. At a two-way Chinese-English program...
...want to take an average of your emotional skill," argues Harvard psychology professor Jerome Kagan, a pioneer in child-development research. "That's what's wrong with the concept of intelligence for mental skills too. Some people handle anger well but can't handle fear. Some people can't take joy. So each emotion has to be viewed differently...
...backward into a small, smelly elevator, while other people used escalators. Martinez, who also rides BART, feels safe there, thanks to bumps, or "edge detection strips" that warn the blind away from the edge of the platforms. Despite the tight-elevator problem, bart is regarded as a disability-rights pioneer. "It was such a treat to take this train when I came to California years ago," says Breslin, who was raised in the Midwest. "I'd never lived anywhere where there was access...
Unfortunately, this electronics pioneer is also an industry leader in losing money. Last week, as the company prepared to report another quarterly loss outstripping its entire 1994 deficit of $14.2 million, the last U.S.-owned firm that still makes TV sets (albeit in Mexico) signed a deal under which it will become a subsidiary of South Korea's LG Electronics. The LG Group, formerly Lucky-Goldstar, thus became South Korea's first conglomerate to establish a major beachhead in American consumer electronics. The firm, whose TV sets captured just 1.7% of the U.S. market last year, could hardly contain...