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...about 65 km east of Taliesin (Welsh for "shining brow"), his home and architecture school at Spring Green. Those historic connections with Madison must have given Wright a special feeling for Monona Terrace. Between 1938 and 1958, he designed at least four different versions of the project. (His pupil and son-in-law William Wesley Peters produced another revision after Wright's death...
...parents may be forgiven for viewing their children as miracles, but none more so than Betsy and Leonard Jernigan Jr. One day when their baby Elizabeth was about four months old, her right eyelid began to weaken a bit; the pupil seemed slow to respond to light. Such small signs, and they came and went; she seemed happy and healthy, so her parents expected that the problem would clear up by itself...
...didn't. Soon the eye began to droop and the pupil became fixed. The baby's grandfather, Isaac Manly, a Harvard- trained surgeon, was worried about the child's symptoms but didn't want to frighten her parents. He gently suggested a trip to the ophthalmologist, which led to the pediatrician, then the neurologist. The first time the parents got a hint of what might be wrong was when they took Elizabeth in for tests and glimpsed the diagnosis on the hospital admissions form: "brain tumor...
...this is despite the fact that education is the biggest line item in most state budgets. Indeed, total U.S. spending on education in 1994 was estimated at $484 billion, almost double the $250 billion spent on defense. But of the average $5,300 spent per pupil each year, some experts estimate that less than half goes into the classroom. The rest goes to such important auxiliary services as athletic coaching and lunch programs--but also to the bureaucracy that both supports and entangles the nation's school system. ``What does this say about our priorities?'' asks Chester E. Finn...
...diverse as the members of America's 64.5 million-strong student body--privatization, home schooling and video instruction. While education remains largely a local matter, with only 7% of funding coming from the Federal Government, a debate is raging over the need to impose national standards whereby every pupil at a given level must master the same body of knowledge and pass the same set of tests. The education act signed by President Clinton last March offers incentives to the states to develop uniform standards for students; it also promotes teacher training and parental involvement. But if there...