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...most sobering findings is that the group that is going to become the predominant minority population in this country, the Latinos, is even more isolated than the blacks. They're being locked into inferior, impoverished schools, and that means their future is threatened." Orfield's prediction: even more rapid escalation of current trends...
...flickering climate" (as it was dubbed by Taylor and his colleagues) would be a biblical disaster in today's crowded world. Droughts, heat waves, floods and plagues of pests would play havoc with crops, and rapid sea-level rise would inundate cities and destroy rich agricultural lands. "The Greenland finding was like a loud noise in the dark," says Taylor. Now he and dozens of other scientists have moved their search to Antarctica in an effort to follow up on this finding...
...health-care sector of the '70s and early '80s. In both, costs rose much faster than inflation. There was price-based costing rather than cost-based pricing. In health care, the result was a market-driven revolution in the way medical services were financed and delivered, including rapid consolidation of providers to eliminate costly duplication of resources. There was fierce competition among the survivors to cut prices and document quality, and the "payers" became the dominant force in calling the shots. Could private higher education be the next market target? DAVID L. MITCHELL Del Mar, California...
...Navy and the Air Force have regularly rewritten their tactical manuals to keep up with the rapid technological advances of the past 25 years, but the Army has been slower to adapt. Now it is trying to make up for lost time. The two-week Mojave war game, which is testing an elaborate new command-and-control system and 72 new pieces of hardware, is the Army's biggest push yet to boot up, log on and march in the information revolution...
...does, however, make a convincing argument that the blows of rapid economic change fall most heavily on those least able to absorb them, and that it makes sense, both economically and politically, to protect those people. He reminds readers that the economic dislocation of the '20s and '30s opened the way for the rise of fascism. One need only observe the growing strength of the far right in Europe or the strange appeal of ultranationalists in the U.S. to see how the ruthless efficiency of capitalism can create social unrest in tandem with wealth...