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The ultimate irony of this great harvest drama lies beyond the shores of the U.S. Lester Brown, head of the Worldwatch Institute, suggested earlier this year that unless there were dramatic changes in population growth and food supply, the world soon would not be able to feed itself. "Food security...
This realization has found expression in other forms as well. In cities like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, reform-minded administrators have not waited for state legislatures to act. They have seized the initiative to create scores of charter-like high schools and middle schools -- small alternative schools that operate...
Meanwhile the experience of Clementina Duron in Oakland, California, is all too typical. When Duron, a public-school principal, joined with a group of Latino parents to form a charter middle school in the low-income barrio of Jingletown, they faced open hostility from the district school board and union...
In the meantime, parents want better schools now. And in spite of the obstacles, they are organizing charter schools in droves and flocking to what few exist. Principal David Lehman of West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science, near Grand Rapids, has a sheaf of applications several inches thick for the...
Israel's principal response, however, has been to shut off the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Normally 65,000 Palestinians cross into Israel to work, but the porous borders had enabled assailants to enter with ease. The Israelis hope closing them completely will not only make terror attacks harder but...