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...bills are not covered by the government's health plan for the elderly will be at the center of a high-profile joust between the President and Republicans. Both sides plan to introduce some kind of prescription-drug benefit into the Medicare system while retrofitting the 34-year-old program to keep it from collapse. Even before Clinton could formally announce his plan, scheduled for this week, the Republicans attacked his proposed premium increase as a tax hike, labeling the whole plan another sneaky attempt at government control of health care. Many Democrats are spoiling for a fight, hoping...
...simplest question. Although seemingly bright, she lagged far behind her peers in speaking and reading and had a hard time making friends. Two years of private speech therapy had failed to bring her up to speed. So her mother Donna enrolled her in "Fast ForWord," a powerful video-game program developed by Scientific Learning Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., to aid children like her who cannot process the sounds of language fast enough to comprehend normal speech. Nicole spent six weeks of intense game playing at a speech clinic in New Jersey, emerging "like a different child," Donna Davis says. Today...
Gratified administrators at the Elim Christian School outside Chicago would endorse that view. Fast ForWord has worked for most of the 40 or so Elim students who have completed the program, says Linda Kleyn, director of network services at the school. That persuaded the Chicago system to give Fast ForWord...
These occurrences need not be cataclysmic. They can be something as simple as the sight of a young girl practicing with her Hula Hoop (Lolita). Or a communications goof in the supposedly fail-safe nuclear-defense program (Dr. Strangelove). Or, as in the case of Eyes Wide Shut--which is due to open July 16 after years of wildly misguided speculation about its content--a confession of unconsummated sexual flirtation...
There is nothing token about the new outreach programs. They are not remedial but creative, even difficult. Dick and Jane have been replaced by Antigone and Pericles. Middle-school math tutorials go on for hours and progress to higher algebra. SAT drills are constant, and college essays are rewritten many times. "Its a huge difference," says U.C. Irvine student tutor Sonia Velazquez. "Kids know when it's remedial and they're being talked down to, no matter how nice you put it." But to be in the outreach program means to be special, bright, even cool. When Willard held sign...