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Still, council members managed, amid the songs and jokes, to pass two measures to improve the quality and amount of public open space in Cambridge--and to approve $5,000 to buy 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys for the poor...
Karon Daniel, the interim director of public relations at Morris Brown, wrote that the report "paint[s] a misleading picture and unduly alarms parents...
Alan Stone, the Vice President for Public Affairs at Columbia, called the report "at odds with reality...
...STUDENTS RECEIVING SOME KIND OF FINANCIAL AID [Public] 45% [Private] 52% Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac; National Center for Education Statistics; American Association of University Professors...
...Clinton Administration's noble goal of getting every public school online by 2001 has a downside risk. Up to 70% of the nation's 30 million schoolchildren are being given access to computers, but little attention is being paid to the kinds of equipment, including desks and keyboard rests, they are using--and to the potential for injury or even permanent damage. A Cornell University study of elementary schoolchildren found that about 40% of them were in danger of developing serious posture problems and the other 60% had conditions that were cause for concern. Says Professor Alan Hedge, who heads...