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Economically, Guinea fared little better under Toure. Despite its vast resources of bauxite (used to make aluminum), diamonds and iron, Guinea remains a desperately poor nation. Annual per capita income is $290, life expectancy is less than 40 years, and the infant mortality rate is tragically high. In the rundown capital of Conakry, there has been little new construction in 25 years. Businesses must provide their own services, even such basic ones as electricity and water. Malnourished children play listlessly in the streets...
Public education in Arkansas has long been the Dogpatch of the nation's school systems. Many poorly financed districts in the state have tiny, rundown schoolhouses staffed by some of the lowest-paid teachers in the country. Consider, for example, the Thornton school district (total enrollment: 300), located in the timber country of southern Arkansas. The last time its tenth-graders took the basic skills test they placed in the bottom 12% of national scores. The average teacher's salary is only $11,663, and not one teacher is certified to teach physics, foreign languages or art. Says...
...diplomats seem to prefer the Economist's diary, a popular datebook in the movie industry is LeBook Los Angeles, which for $28.50 offers 116 pages of local services ranging from art galleries to auto rentals. Its publisher, Citrus House, also sells a national LeBook containing the basic rundown on 36 of the most visited cities in the U.S. This year LeBook contains a guide to the Olympic Games...
From the first view of a rundown kitchen, complete with refrigerator and green plastic chairs, director R.J. Cutler and set designer Peter Sorger demonstrate a firm grasp of Shepard's hard realism. The Tates, a family of four, scrap endlessly about their unproductive farmstead and their dreary lives. Weston (Dean Norris), the alcoholic father, has just bashed in the front door after a night in the bars. His wife Ella (Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than...
Purchasing a rundown farm as their live-in headquarters, the women, representing about 20 organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Boston's Women Against Militarism, banned men from entering their camp and hung out decorated pillowcases on which political slogans were scrawled (I DREAM OF A UNITED SISTERHOOD). Some walked arm in arm around the camp, occasionally embracing...