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...those personal goals. The venerable concept of apprenticeship, which thrived in 18th and 19th century America, will be revived; young people will divide their time between school and training with mentors in areas ranging from carpentry to wildlife biology. At the same time, adult education will boom as workers retrain for new jobs, bone up on developments in fast- moving fields and learn new skills and hobbies for their retirement years...
Civic Union contends that the resulting mass unemployment would simply be too great, and that argument seems to be converting some reformers. Says Sergei Stankevich, a Yeltsin adviser: "The orthodox liberal idea of letting the majority of enterprises go bankrupt and then, after we have millions of unemployed, retrain, reorganize, sell is absolute nonsense." Gerashchenko announced last month that he intends to extend loans to the wheezing dinosaurs, enabling them to pay off vast debts, and to raise part of the money by printing 350 billion to 400 billion new rubles...
...Troy, Michigan, only two months after finding the position. He fears he will have to take a truck-driving job at $7 an hour, less than half his former pay. "The older people like me are really in a bind," he says. "The younger ones can get retraining. But who's going to retrain you if you've got only five or 10 years left?" The depth of the need for some coherent system of retraining was demonstrated recently in California, when more than 1,000 people arrived at 4 a.m. and waited for up to six hours to enroll...
...something to boast about in the fall campaign. Industry groups will evaluate terms of the agreement and offer recommendations before it goes to Congress, where the debate promises to be contentious. Some Democratic lawmakers charge that the pact lacks safeguards for American jobs and want programs to retrain displaced workers and protect the environment. Congress is expected to delay serious discussion until after the elections and then put the deal to a vote sometime early next year...
...week declared that domestic violence against women is a true epidemic, one that requires response from health officials. According to new A.M.A. guidelines, physicians should routinely screen female patients for incidents of abuse. "Domestic violence is rampant, and doctors are part of the problem," says Novello. "We have to retrain some of us to believe that domestic violence with a fist is as important as violence with...