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...every child can handle the richest offering of broad, humanistic learning. While he concedes that intellectual capacities vary, by his own metaphor, from half-pint to gallon containers, his approach holds that even for slow learners half a pint of Plato is better than half a pint of engine repair...
...year ago that bit of finagling might have gone unnoticed. For a time, beginning in the late '70s, the Havana government tolerated financial freewheeling on a modest scale, and Cubans grew accustomed to it. Moonlighting for extra income became commonplace among Cubans with skills in plumbing, shoe cobbling, auto repair and other personal services given short shrift by the centralized economy. Homebuilding turned into a lively cottage industry that helped ease the island nation's chronic housing shortage and rewarded the handy. Faring best of all were the country's farmers, who were allowed to sell items produced in excess...
Roll over, Karl Marx. Wake up, Friedrich Engels. Nearly 150 years after The Communist Manifesto and 70 years after the Russian Revolution, free enterprise is coming back to the Soviet Union. Businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shoe repair to interior decoration are being legalized under a new "individual labor" law that takes effect this Friday -- which happens, ironically, to be the international socialist holiday May Day. The measure makes it possible for the first time since Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s for individuals to make money legally according to a decidedly un-Marxist principle: from...
...projects are currently "on-hold" for a variety of reasons, but Scott said that these projects will be completed within the next two or three years. One reason for the delay is the University's policy of holding off abestosclean-up projects in buildings slated forrenovation until the scheduled repair work begins,Scott said...
...allotment that covered equipment for physiology and biology research ten years ago has grown to $1.4 million. Moreover, universities must scramble to replace outdated facilities. Says Northwestern's Weber: "We have buildings here that cost $1 million to build 80 years ago, and cost $5 million just to repair." And books are not any cheaper. To maintain its library, Northwestern orders 29,000 periodicals a year at a cost approaching $2 million. Other uncontrollable costs include insurance and utilities. Emory University in Atlanta expects next year's electric bill to rise...