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Although Wechsler and Mary Rohman, research associate at the Medical Foundation, Inc., conducted the study eight years ago, Wechsler says that more recent research indicates that the numbers have remained relatively unchanged...
...reparations idea is not a new one, but it has gathered some momentum since the Detroit city council last month asked Congress to establish a $40 billion education fund for the descendants of slaves. While the idea has a surface plausibility, its proponents might have overlooked important historical distinctions. Recent payments to Native Americans are the result of acknowledged violations of U.S. law, and the Japanese Americans who received compensation for their internment were the victims themselves, not their descendants...
...village of Cordova, 500 fishermen and townspeople stood at the waterfront in a driving rain and staged a "requiem" for Prince William Sound. State environment commissioner Kelso, on hand to address the group, tried to ease the sense of gloom. He recounted to the throng that on a recent inspection trip to Knight Island he had seen a great pod of whales offshore. There were as many as 40, so close that he could hear the sound of their exhalations when they surfaced and the slap of their flukes when they dived once more. Seeing how the huge sea mammals...
Regular patrons dote on the academic experience. L'Ecole diner Gilberte Roger, 40, a French citizen who works at the United Nations, on a recent visit found that her carrots were too hard and that they had an unreal "American look." But she enjoyed the rest of her meal so much that she vowed to return because the restaurant "deserved to be called French." The splendid menu at the Culinary School of Kendall College in Evanston, Ill., which serves specialties like roast quail stuffed with duck sausage and hazelnuts, receives raves from Stewart Koppel, a retired businessman, who drives three...
...sauteed, some poached, some braised," says Jean-Michel Jeudy, vice president for food and beverage. "We do not teach different recipes but different techniques." The accent is equally Gallic at L'Ecole, the aptly named restaurant of the French Culinary Institute in New York City's SoHo district. A recent $18 prix fixe lunch began with a light Roquefort souffle, which was followed by a moist salmon fillet in chervil sauce, a delicate lamb ragout and a green salad, and ended with a textbook-perfect creme brulee...