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Would-be cosmonauts have plenty of time to ponder the far-out trip: the % drawing is set for next December, and the flight may not occur until 1993. Texas officials, however, have begun an investigation to determine whether the conditions of the offer amounted to a lottery rather than a sweepstakes. If so, it would violate state law and presumably be canceled long before the countdown begins...
...that includes a six-month internship in an urban superintendent's office. The effort is mercifully short on theory and long on experience and real life. Students -- most with more than a decade in public education -- role-play different sides in past labor negotiations, face local television reporters and ponder administrative dilemmas involving everything from what to do about asbestos in schools to AIDS education. The students are forced to hone political skills that have little to do with education but are necessities for the jobs they seek...
...free-falling economy, with an inflation rate of more than 75%, a gaping balance of payments deficit and a budget that devotes 40% of its resources to the military. The cutoff of U.S. aid after the 1988 riots has had no discernible effect, leading some American policymakers to ponder whether to try some limited involvement with the Burmese government once again. Burton Levin, the former U.S. ambassador to Burma, says no. "To think you can sit down and talk to these people would be to ignore the history of the last 28 years," he says. "If these people remain...
Most of the time, however, Taylor says people should not worry about the connotations when they ponder getting a nosering...
...countryside and reveling in their freedom to ride to a horizon unvexed by civilization, then it really does not make any difference if they are wearing feathers or Stetsons. The point has always been to remind us that open land shaped American history and character, and to make us ponder the cost of fencing off our former spaciousness and degrading the peoples who lived within...